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Dunkirk to the Rhineland. Diaries and Sketches of Sergeant Charles Murrell, Welsh Guards

Door Nick Murrell

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#210378
Titel
Dunkirk to the Rhineland. Diaries and Sketches of Sergeant Charles Murrell, Welsh Guards
Auteur
Murrell, Nick
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Jaar van uitgave
2011
ISBN10
1848843895
ISBN13
9781848843899
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
Charles (Charlie to his comrades) Murrell kept detailed diaries of his service with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards throughout the Second World War as Guardsman (later Sergeant).

This book starts on 10 May 1940 with the Blitzkrieg on Arras and the retreat to Dunkirk. The Dunkirk beaches and his own undignified evacuation are described in some detail and occasional humor.

The second part begins on 20 June 1944 when the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards set sail for Normandy and they take part in the Battle for Caen with engagements at Cheux, Cagny and Colombelles and thence to the Bocage country with a particularly bloody fight at Montchamp.

The final element covers the race for and liberation of Brussels, a fiercely fought engagement at Hechtel – Operation MARKET GARDEN, Nijmegen and the ... (Lees verder)"Island', winter in Belgium and Holland and the Rhineland Battle.

As a member of the Intelligence Section, the Author was aware of the "big picture.' Very observant, he has a literary style and ability unusual in a ranker. He often writes in his trench whilst under mortar or shell fire and one experiences the fear that he (and millions of others) felt. He describes several near death experiences and the casualties and deaths of his comrades and other horrors of war, sometimes in graphic detail. There are descriptions of hair-raising motorcycle rides, the fanaticism of the SS, the sadness of lettering crosses of his dead comrades, the ecstatic receptions in liberated villages and towns, culminating in the liberation of Brussels, the uneasy relationship with American troops, the importance of alcohol in his (and others) war and the joy of returning to England.
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