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With the Jocks

- A Soldier's Struggle for Europe 1944-45
Af: Peter White Engelsk Paperback

With the Jocks

- A Soldier's Struggle for Europe 1944-45
Af: Peter White Engelsk Paperback
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''The book is remarkable .... one of the most striking personal records of the period.'' - Max HastingsAs a 24-year-old lieutenant in the King''s Own Scottish Borderers, Peter kept an unauthorised journal of his regiment''s advance through the Low Countries and into Germany in the closing months of the war in Europe. Forbidden by his commanding officer from doing so for security reasons, Peter''s boyhood habit of diary keeping had become an obsession too strong to shake off. In this graphic evocation of a soldier at war, the images he records are not for the faint hearted.

There are heroes aplenty within its pages, but there are also disturbing insights into the darker sides of humanity - the men who broke under the strain and who ran away; the binge drinking which occasionally rendered the whole platoon unable to fight; the looting, the rape, and the callous disregard for human life that happens when death is a daily companion. Hidden away for more than 50 years, this is a rare opportunity to read an authentic account of the horrors of war experienced by a British soldier in the greatest conflict of the 20th century.

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''The book is remarkable .... one of the most striking personal records of the period.'' - Max HastingsAs a 24-year-old lieutenant in the King''s Own Scottish Borderers, Peter kept an unauthorised journal of his regiment''s advance through the Low Countries and into Germany in the closing months of the war in Europe. Forbidden by his commanding officer from doing so for security reasons, Peter''s boyhood habit of diary keeping had become an obsession too strong to shake off. In this graphic evocation of a soldier at war, the images he records are not for the faint hearted.

There are heroes aplenty within its pages, but there are also disturbing insights into the darker sides of humanity - the men who broke under the strain and who ran away; the binge drinking which occasionally rendered the whole platoon unable to fight; the looting, the rape, and the callous disregard for human life that happens when death is a daily companion. Hidden away for more than 50 years, this is a rare opportunity to read an authentic account of the horrors of war experienced by a British soldier in the greatest conflict of the 20th century.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 576
ISBN-13: 9780750930574
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0750930578
Kategori: Europæisk historie
Udg. Dato: 24 okt 2002
Længde: 43mm
Bredde: 127mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato: 24 okt 2002
Forfatter(e): Peter White
Forfatter(e) Peter White

Kategori Europæisk historie

ISBN-13 9780750930574

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 576

Udgave

Længde 43mm

Bredde 127mm

Højde 198mm

Udg. Dato 24 okt 2002

Oplagsdato 24 okt 2002

Forlag The History Press Ltd

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