Accidental Warrior. In the Front Line From Normandy Till Victory

Paperback. Couple of slight creases to front cover. His compelling narrative, largely written just after the war, vividly reveals how an unexceptional, unaggresive boy of nineteen was moulded by training and by fighting experience into a highly competent soldier. Few other writers have described so powerfully the confusing been and flow of battle, the rain, the broken nights, the numbing fear, the efforts to maintain morale, the awesome responsibilities of front-line command and, despite it all, the sense that duty was inescapable. The story of Picot and the 1st Hampshires is unique, yet also the story of a generation - a generation of ordinary men called upon to do extraordinary things. Illustrated. 318 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).