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Barrie Pitt

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Born: July 06 1918

Died: 1414 04 20062006

Barrie William Edward Pitt was educated at Portsmouth Southern Grammar School before becoming a bank clerk. After service in the Second World War Pitt worked as a surveyor, joined 21 SAS , with whom he rose to the rank of sergeant, and started to write for the magazine Adventure. Pitt also worked for a time as an information officer at the Atomic Energy Authority establishment at Aldermaston, where he demonstrated a talent for turning scientific information into readable prose

In 1958, Pitt wrote a novel, The Edge of Battle, and Zeebrugge, an admired account of the First World War raid on the Belgian U-boat base. This led to a long and prolific career as an author and editor of popular histories. Under the overall editorship of Sir Basil Liddell-Hart, he was responsible for the first major part-work, Purnell's History of the Second World War, a 96-instalment mass circulation series which was launched in 1966 at the Imperial War Museum. He also worked as a researcher for the 1960s BBC television series The Great War.

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Barrie Pitt

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Books from Barrie Pitt

Special Boat Squadron

Coronel and Falkland

Zeebrugge: Eleven VCs Before Breakfast

Montgomery and Alamein: The Crucible of War Book 3

The Battle Of The Atlantic

Wavell's Command: The Crucible of War Book 1

Stalingrad: The Turning Point

The Crucible of War: The Complete Volumes

Auchinleck's Command: The Crucible of War Book 2

1918: The Last Act

Tarawa: A Legend is Born

Airborne Carpet: Operation Market Garden

Operation Torch: Anglo-American Invasion of North Africa

Warsaw Rising (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Politics in Action No. 5)

Lidice: Sacrificial Village (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: human conflict No. 2)

Armoured Onslaught: 8th August 1918

SS and Gestapo: Rule by Terror

Spitfires, vechten voor Engeland

The Year of Alamein, 1942 - The Crucible of War

1918: The Last Act