Recollections Of Rifleman Bowlby
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Author | : Alex Bowlby |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-11-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1474625479 |
'One of the great Second World War memoirs ... will be read as long as that war is remembered' John Keegan 'Extraordinary realism' SUNDAY TIMES 'A touch of the Somme and more than a hint of Wilfred Owen' TLS A classic of WWII, this is the vivid memoir of Private Bowlby, who came through the North Africa campaign only to have to battle in bitter fighting against a stubborn and skilled German defence in Italy. It is a truly authentic account of what it was like to fight your way through one of the most gruelling and dangerous campaigns of the Second World War, where so often the hunters became the hunted. A superb first-hand account of the the second world war.
Author | : Alex Bowlby |
Publisher | : Leo Cooper Books |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9780850520118 |
Author | : Alex Bowlby |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 1969-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0850521386 |
In 1944, having distinguished itself in the North Africa campaign, Rifleman Bowlby's battalion of Greenjackets was sent to Italy. But instead of being used in the specialised role for which it had been trained, most of the battalion's vehicles were taken away on arrival, and the riflemen were told that they were to be used as ordinary infantry. Stripped of its hard core of regulars, the battalion suffered one disastrous defeat after another until its hard-won reputation fell in tatters. 'Quite extraordinary realism in this worm's eye view ... The sweating, slogging, frightened infantryman in conditions of extreme stress and horror. It is a book to bring a shiver to the most grizzled veteran.' Sunday Times
Author | : Shelford Bidwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Bilag A-C: Kronologisk oversigt over batteriernes placering 1793-1838; Oversigt over modtagere af Viktoriakorset; Regimentsmarcherne "The Duchess of Kent March", "The Keel Row" og "Bonnie Dundee" i nodenotation. - Citater fra forskellige kilder. - Introduktion til bogen ved Brian Horrocks.
Author | : Alex Bowlby |
Publisher | : Arrow |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1991-07-04 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9780099785408 |
This is Rifleman Bowlby's account of life in an infantry platoon in Italy in 1944. The battalion in which he served had been renowned throughout the 8th Army, but by the time it arrived in Italy it had been stripped of its core of regulars and its specialist role. Now used as heavy infantry, it lost its first battle, then its second, and the reputation that had taken three years to build fell apart in a few weeks. Only in its last battle, when it was smashed to pieces on the Gothic line, did the battalion regain its esteem.
Author | : Bowlby Alex Staff |
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Release | : 1999-08 |
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ISBN | : 9780297645368 |
Author | : Ben Shephard |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674011199 |
This is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century. Both absorbing historical narrative and intellectual detective story, it weaves literary, medical, and military lore to give us a fascinating history of war neuroses and their treatment, from the World Wars through Vietnam and up to the Gulf War.
Author | : Samuel Hynes |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 1998-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101191724 |
The Soldiers' Tale is the story of modern wars as told by the men who did the actual fighting. Hynes examines the journals, memoirs, and letters of men who fought in the two World Wars and in Vietnam, and also the wars fought against the weak and helpless in concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and bombed cities. Interweaving his own reflections on war with brilliantly chosen passages from soldiers' accounts, he offers vivid answers to the question we all ask of men who have fought: What was it like? In these powerful pages the experiences of modern war, which seem unimaginable to those who weren't there, become comprehensible and real. The wide range of writers examined includes both famous literary memoirists like Robert Graves, Tim O'Brien, and Elie Wiesel, and unknown soldiers who wrote only their war stories. Using these testimonies, Hynes considers each war in terms of its special circumstances and its effects on men who fought. His understanding of the psychology of warfare—and of each war's role in history—gives this study its intellectual authority; the voices of the men who were there, and wrote about what they saw and felt, give it its powerful dramatic impact.
Author | : Frances Houghton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2019-01-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1108496911 |
Reveals how memoirs are rich repositories of information about the ways in which veterans remembered, understood, and recounted their war.
Author | : Charles Dalton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 |
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