Out of a batch of forty or more applicants at that time from the battalion, just two of us eventually went...
When passing through the fifteen-miles-wide Straits of Gibraltar, which separates Africa from Europe,...
In the sophisticated ‘joints’, half-naked Arab girls could be seen dancing to the sensuous...
We were assisted off Djebel Mansour by a contingent of the French Foreign Legion who set up a rearguard...
In preparation for the forthcoming airborne attacks against the Axis forces in Sicily, the whole division...
Meanwhile, back in North Africa, in comparative safety, while the 1st Airborne Division pushed on with the...
On an early December day, we were billeted under canvas in huge marquees in a camp that had been set up in...
As winter slid into spring, with the invasion of Europe imminent, it was increasingly evident that it would...
Parts of the town were ablaze as the Germans brought their flame-throwers into action and Arnhem was fast...
There were compounds for Russians, Poles and Italians, and transit compounds for the working parties which...
The news from the BBC bulletins told us that the American and Russian troops were making great strides deep...
We learned later that the whole German army had capitulated, the instrument of surrender being signed by...