发表于2024-12-23
Fear is the Foe: A Footslogger from Normandy to the Rhine 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 回忆录 英国 收录目标 战争史 历史 二战史 二战
This is an account of life in one of the smallest of army units - the four sections of squaddies that comprise a platoon. Private Stanley Waterhouse was among that carefree breed of pre-war young men who viewed war as a great adventure, but the horrors of the battlefield quickly dispelled this attitude, and fear, overpowering fear, began to stalk his waking hours and haunt his dreams. He was probably one of the youngest British squaddies in the Normandy landing. He enlisted when barely sixteen, and on D-Day was still short of his eighteenth birthday. His harrowing experiences in North-West Europe turned him into a bitter, angry young man who felt that after his army career he and his fellow soldiers received scant recognition.
Fear is the Foe: A Footslogger from Normandy to the Rhine 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书