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A carregar... AN ENGLISHMAN AT WAR: The Wartime Diaries of Stanley Christopherson, DSO, MC, TD - 1939-1945 (edição 2020)por JAMES HOLLAND
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. An inestimable personal account by a veteran of many of the most vital episodes of WW2: From Egypt & El Alamein to D-Day and onto the liberation of Belgium and the eventual ruins of Berlin the diaries of Stanley Christopherson (a most heroic - though he would never have admitted it - thus typically unassuming Englishman at war). Marvellously edited by Historian James Holland it documents the British war effort from its disastrous opening year to the final triumph. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
From the outbreak of war in September 1939 all the way to the smouldering ruins of Berlin in 1945, via Palestine, Tobruk, El Alamein, D-Day, Nijmegen and the crossing of the Rhine, An Englishman at War is a unique first-person account of the Second World War. The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, Stanley Christopher's regiment, went to war as amateurs, equipped with courage but very little else, and ended up one of the most experienced, highly trained and most valued armoured units in the British Army. Their journey through the war, learning through mistakes and tragedy as well as from a determined desire to improve, can, in many ways, be seen to reflect the experience of the British Army as a whole. From Alamein onwards, the Sherwood Rangers were in the vanguard of almost every action in which they took part, and over the course of the conflict, they amassed an astonishing thirty battle honours. Christopherson himself was to rise from a junior subaltern to become the commanding officer of the regiment soon after the D-Day landings. He took part in all thirty battle honours, and collected a Distinguished Service Order, two Military Crosses and an American Silver Star, as well as being Mentioned in Despatches four times. His is an extraordinary story. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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