Battle Diary: From D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee and Ve

by Charlie Martin

Book Overview

A fast-paced account by a soldier who was twice decorated. Charlie Martin, company sergeant-major in the Queen's Own, was with his beloved A Company in all of the significant Normandy actions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155002213X
• ISBN13: 9781550022131
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

If you've seen "Saving Private Ryan" then read this book!

In this book, Sergeant-Major Charles Cromwell recounts his own first-hand experiences of the Canadian arms of the D-Day landings. Like the hit movie "Saving Private Ryan", this book is told in vivid, easy to understand - "readable" english. Here he vividly recreates the horrors of the landings, and how these (like the American landing at Ohmaha), went wrong. He then takes us past the landings and on a journey through the next few months. He takes us through the sweep into France and through the push into Germany. It's a true story of "how men became veterans who had to learn fast at the 'point' or they were gone." Because these horors happened - that alone is reason enough that books like these must be read so that we may be even more thankful for the freedoms we share today.