8.15 to War: Memoirs of a Desert Rat

 

Peter Roach spent most of the first two years of the war at sea on Atlantic convoys and, deciding that he'd had enough of bombs, torpedoes and shells without being able to hit back and wishing to get to grips with the enemy himself, he persuaded the authorities to allow him to leave the Merchant Navy and join the Army.
Peter Roach arrived in Egypt in the spring of '42 and soon went up the desert as a gunner operator in the 1st Tank Regiment. His book takes us through the rest of the North African campaign, across to Italy and back to the UK to prepare for the invasion of Normandy. In July '44 he was wounded in the fighting which followed Operation Goodwood but managed to return to the Regiment again in October '44, only to be wounded in January '45 in Holland after which he returned to England for a commission.

 

Peter Roach
Hardcover with d/w 184pp Leo Cooper 1983

 

Fine/Fine

 

Book Code:  SH1511