Gregg, Victor

Victor Gregg was born in London in 1919 and joined the army in 1937, serving first in the Rifle Brigade in Palestine and North Africa, notably at the Battle of Alamein, and then with the Parachute Regiment, at the Battle of Arnhem. As a prisoner of war he survived the bombing of Dresden to be repatriated in 1946, and now lives in Winchester. The story of his adult years, "Rifleman: A Front-line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall", also co-written with Rick Stroud, was published by Bloomsbury in 2011.Rick Stroud is a writer and film director. As well as working with Vi...