came across this whilst cruising the internet for Brazilian love poetry…(if you believe that then you’ll believe anything)
it looks interesting and is available on Netflix apparently. despite someone on youtube describing the troops as Americans, they are quite obviously British. if anyone has any experience of this let me know as i plan to waych it when i get home from Spain, in the meantime here is the trailer.
I was a book store manager; I know there’s a least one person out there still reading poetry otherwise there’d have been no sales at all in that section of the store, so I’d have believed you.
Best I could do David - in Portuguese and English:
A snip at 30-odd quid.
Don’t ever say I don’t care(!)
It’s about a battle in Zeeland, south of the Netherlands when the Allied tried to get a free passage to the Antwerp harbour.
Reviews on it are mixed but I sure liked it.
I saw it and like it very much actually.
The poor reviews came from basement gamers who expected to see a female soldier with a prosthetic arm wielding a katana leading the Allies.
I found it to be quite good. It is very much in the style of 1917 and Dunkirk. As a Canadian it held a special place for me, since a lot of fighting was done by my countrymen around the Scheldt.
From the trailers, it would be an almost impossible task. There would be no abled fighting men left by the time they reached the enemy.
Where can I see that movie! I love one armed, katana slashing women. Sounds like the old school BAM’s.
I’ve seen a snippet of this not too long ago off my YouTube suggestions. It looks ok. I’m just curious if this is supposed to be set during Market Garden or Varsity… 
Is the time period but really the Battle of Walcheren.
The movie isn’t bad, just not your typical US WW2 movie.
It was the premier trailer for the game Battlefield V, which was set in WWII. It did not go over well with franchise fans.
Yes I am aware of the Scheldt Estuary campaign, but am not familiar with any of the particular battles. But the clip that I saw from this movie on YouTube involved glider troops. Did the 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade employ any gliders during this battle? I thought that those were only used by the Airborne units, thus putting the film during the airlifts of Sept '44 for Market Garden or March '45 for Varsity. I was also under the impression that many of the battles in the Scheldt Campaign were fought using amphibious warfare due to the flooding and positions.
I don’t think so. I as recall it was the Brits who had the gliders for MG. The pilot/airborne joined up with Canadians after the crash landing in their AO in the movie.
well that settles it, i will be watching it when i get home and doing some research for reading material for the Scheldt Estuary campaign and the battle of Wacheren Causeway.
can anyone recommend any good books about these battles/campaigns?
So, not content with my efforts to find a book on Brazilian poetry you now desire military history - Jeez.
Seriously, you could do worse than this one David:
Around 12 quid or so; digestible - as Osprey’s efforts usually are - good clear maps, some of the pictorial illustrations a bit so-so, but I ended up wanting to build Buffaloes, Crabs and Weasels at the end of it.
Fairly easily available I should think - I haven’t checked.
Two concrete pillboxes, flak 88, trench mg positions.
Only hiding places was some bomb craters, dragons teeth and bodies of your comrades.
At least depicted in the movie, no air cover and limited/no arty support.
The frontal assault was costly and not effective.
Poor planning on the Allied High Command gave them Antwerp, but no way to use it. Other than Market Garden, little is ever written or discussed about the horrific battle to clear the Scheldt Estuary. I worked with 2 people whose families had come to the US after the war and, like many French citizens feel about Normandy and the liberation of France, they had learned from their parents and grandparents chapter and verse about the fighting.
The Germans had flooded much of the land and the fighting was vicious everywhere
Particularly the fighting during Operation Switchback was extremely costly for the Canadians.
From November 44 to the end of the war, conditions in the Netherlands deteriorated to the point that their was widespread famine.
The story of the final year of the war in the “Low Countries” has never gotten the coverage and discussion that the rest of Western Europe has had.
well you’re retired now which means you’re at my beck and call, either that or your wife will find work for you 
seriously though, thanks for the book suggestion, i’ll have a look for that one when i get back to the hotel.
My mother used to tell us about her food walks, during the faminwinter of begin '45 from Amsterdam up north into the Wieringermeer, 45 km or so. Pushing a pram with goods to trade for food with farmers… eating tulipbulbs… my father had been picked up during a razzia in 44, sent to Germany to work in munition factory, he was 30, when he came back in 45 his hair was white… bombers dropping bread over North Holland..
