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The Recollections Of Rifleman Bowlby
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Alex Bowlby
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9781474625470, 9781474623261
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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‘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.

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The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby
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Alex Bowlby
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9781473817500, 9780850521382
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Leo Cooper
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PDF and EPUB

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The classic memoir by an infantryman in the British army during the Second World War, “a book to bring a shiver to the most grizzled veteran (The Sunday Times). 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 specialized 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. This is a memoir that captures “quite extraordinary realism in this worm’s eye view . . . the sweating, slogging, frightened infantryman in conditions of extreme stress and horror” (The Sunday Times).

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