To War with a 4th Hussar e-bog
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This vivid WWII memoir recounts the exploits of a 4th Queen's Own Hussar through the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatre of combat. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Peter Crichton was quick to enlist and escape his journalistic job in London. The adventuresome young man transferred to the 4th Queen's Own Hussars and soon found himself fighting a desperate and ill-fated rear-guard ...
E-bog
36,52 DKK
Forlag
Pen & Sword Military
Udgivet
28 februar 2019
Længde
240 sider
Genrer
1DVG
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781526755131
This vivid WWII memoir recounts the exploits of a 4th Queen's Own Hussar through the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatre of combat. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Peter Crichton was quick to enlist and escape his journalistic job in London. The adventuresome young man transferred to the 4th Queen's Own Hussars and soon found himself fighting a desperate and ill-fated rear-guard action in the mountains of Northern Greece. One of the few in his Regiment to be evacuated, Crichton went on to see combat in the battles of Alam Halfa and El Alamein. But he also found time to play polo and fall in love. Crichton was later deployed to Yugoslavia where he was attached to Tito's partisans, a guerilla resistance movement that fought their way North, island by island, hurrying the Germans' withdrawal. After four and a half years' absence, he returned to London on VE Day, 1945, grateful to be alive.