"Clear The Way" the wartime memoirs of one of the British Army's most decorated soldiers, Belfast born Lieutenant General Sir John Irvine GCB, CBE, DSO, MC. Published in the UK by Pen and Sword in 2017.
A Major at the start of the War, Irvine took command of the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rangers in the summer of 1997 and came to worldwide attention when a rousing eve of battle speech he gave to his men during the siege of Warsaw was filmed by a Sky News camera crew and broadcast on 24 hour news channels across the globe. Following the BAOR's return to the UK in 2001, he went on to command a Brigade during the liberation of Cornwall. He retired from the Army in 2011, having commanded a Division and, latterly, I British Corps.
Clear the Way takes the reader on a journey from the plains of central Germany to Cornwall via the BAOR's advance towards, and subsequent retreat from, Warsaw. Particularly recommended are the chapters describing the siege for Warsaw which bring the battle for the beleagured Polish Capital to life with an intensity that makes the reader feel as though he or she is in the thick of the fighting.
The title is an English translation of the motto of the Royal Irish Rangers, Faugh a Ballagh in Irish gaelic.
(No prizes for guessing who the author is based on...
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