He was captured at Arnhem where he volunteered to be sent to a work camp rather than become another faceless number in the huge POW camps. This is his true eyewitness account of that week in February 1945.Īlready a seasoned soldier with the Rifle Brigade, Gregg joined the 10th Parachute Regiment in 1944. Victor Gregg remained above ground throughout the firebombing.
Vonnegut was imprisoned in a cellar while the firestorm raged through the city, wiping out generations of innocent lives. In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut fictionalised his time as a prisoner of war in Dresden in 1945. Gregg died on 12 October 2021, three days shy of his 102nd birthday.'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow At the time, he was interviewed and stated that Brexit was "breaking his heart". After sabotaging the factory, causing it to burn to the ground, he was sentenced to death in Dresden, and only escaped due to Allied bombing in February 1945. He was taken as a prisoner of war, and attempted twice to escape before being sent to work in a soap factory. Victor was one of 582 men parachuted into Holland as part of the ill-fated Operation Market Garden.
Before the Battle of Arnhem, he joined the 10th Battalion, Parachute Regiment. He joined the British Army in 1937, signing up for 21 years he first joined the Rifle Brigade in India and Palestine at the age of 19, before serving in the Western Desert.
Gregg was born in King’s Cross, London on 15 October 1919, the eldest of three children. A prequel, King's Cross Kid, was published in 2013. His best known book is Rifleman: A Front Line Life, published in 2011.
He survived the bombing of Dresden and, after the war, worked as a spy. Gregg joined the armed forces in 1937, and fought in North Africa and at the Battle of Arnhem. Victor James Thomas Gregg (15 October 1919 – 12 October 2021) was a British author, columnist and World War II veteran.
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