The Battle for Port-en-Bessin
Winner - Best Historical Fiction 2025
Finalist - Best Book of the Year - 2025
It is with great delight that I can announce that The Battle of Port-en-Bessin, my semi-historical war novel - covering the exploits of 47 (Royal Marine) Commando and their daring adventures during and after the D-Day landings at Normandy - has been selected by reviewers as the winner of the Best Historical Fiction category of the N.N. Light Book Awards for 2025.
Of note is the fact that The Battle of Port-en-Bessin was also a finalist in the Best Book of the Year category, reaching the final three. Something I'm rather proud of, as this was the first time I've attempted to write in this genre.
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The Battle of Port-en-Bessin
The
early hours of 6 June, 1944, saw Sergeant Richard—Lion—Hart of 47 (Royal Marine)
Commando, leading his men ashore at JIG Green Sector, on the beaches of
Normandy.
Their
objective: To establish a foothold on enemy territory, and then march west,
across country, to the strategically placed and heavily fortified harbor town
of Port-en-Bessin. A location that would serve the Allies as a temporary
marshalling area for fuel, weapons and supplies until Cherbourg had fallen.
On paper, a straightforward—if hazardous—endeavor.
Yet war is seldom straightforward. The Germans had been
preparing for this moment for four years. And, as history has shown time and
again; “the best-laid plans of mice and
men often go awry,” An idiom that Sergeant Hart and members of 47 Commando subsequently learned to
their cost.
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