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As a 24-year-old lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, Peter kept an unauthorised journal of his regiment's advance through the Low Countries and into Germany in the closing months of the war in Europe. Forbidden by his commanding officer from doing so for security reasons, Peter's boyhood habit of diary keeping had become an obsession too strong to shake off. In this graphic evocation of a soldier at war, the images he records are not for the faint hearted. There are heroes aplenty within its pages, but there are also disturbing insights into the darker sides of humanity - the men who broke under the strain and who ran away; the binge drinking which occasionally rendered the whole platoon unable to fight; the looting, the rape, and the callous disregard for human life that happens when death is a daily companion. Hidden away for more than 50 years, this is a rare opportunity to read an authentic account of the horrors of war experienced by a British soldier in the greatest conflict of the 20th century.Product Identifiers
PublisherT.H.E. Hi-Story Press LTD
ISBN-139780750930574
eBay Product ID (ePID)87653182
Product Key Features
Number of Pages576 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWith the Jocks: a Soldier's Struggle for Europe 1944-45
Publication Year2002
SubjectHistory
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBiographies & True Stories
AuthorPeter White
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight460 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorPeter White