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'''Fred Majdalany''' (1913-1967) was a British soldier, author and journalist. |
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Fred Majdalany (1913-1967) was a British soldier, author and journalist.
Majdalany enlisted in the British Army at the outbreak of war in 1939, and was commissioned into the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1940. He went on the serve wih the 2nd Battalion, rising to the rank of Major in the Lancashire Fusiliers (11th Infantry Brigade, 78th Division) in North Africa and Italy,[1] where he was awarded the Military Cross.[2]
After the war, he went back to writing, publishing works of fiction based on his experiences such as The Monastery (1946)[3] and Patrol (1953)[4], as well historical accounts of major battles and campaigns including Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (1957)[5], The Battle of El Alamein: Fortress in the Sand (1965)[6], and The Fall of Fortress Europe (1969)[7].
References
- ^ Imperial War Museum. "Private Papers of Major F Majdalany".
- ^ Majdalany, Fred (2020-04-23). Patrol. Imperial War Museum. ISBN 978-1-912423-24-8.
- ^ Majdalany, Fred (1946). The Monastery. London: Houghton Mifflin company.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Majdalany, Fred (1953). Patrol (1st ed.). London: LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Majdalany, Fred (1957). Cassino: a portrait of a battle. Longmans, Green.
- ^ Majdalany, Fred (1965). The Battle of El Alamein: Fortress in the Sand (1st ed.). USA: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
- ^ Majdalany, Fred (1969). The Fall of Fortress Europe. Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-04439-1.