Marching to the Sound of Gunfire From the D Day Landings to the Final Battles of WWII

In this book, scores of British soldiers from almost every echelon of the British Army tell their amazing stories of life and death at the sharp end. In the eleven months that followed D-day, these soldiers successfully drove the Nazi hordes back into their Fatherland and beat them into surrender.

There are stories from the 'poor bloody infantry' with their machine gunners, mortar men, stretcher-bearers and pioneers; the brave assault troops who stormed the Normandy beaches and forced bridgeheads over rivers and canals in four countries; the outgunned 'tankies' in their Shermans, Cromwells, and Churchills, slogging it out against the mighty German Tigers and Panthers, and the fearsome dug-in 'eighty-eights'; the dashing recce types in their thin-skinned armoured cars and carriers, sending back vital radio reports; the sappers building bridges and clearing minefields under fire; the gunners with their dedicated FOOs bringing down fast, furious and accurate barrages; the signallers, patching up communication links; the non-combatant stretcher-bearers picking up the dead and dying from the battlefield, their Red Cross armbands no guarantee of immunity from fire; the RAMC doctors and orderlies tending the wounded in their RAP under the most terrible conditions; the immediate support services of the RASC, bringing up vital food and ammunition for the morrow; and the REME repairing armoured vehicles to fight another day.

Patrick Delaforce

Hardcover 218pp