Born in battle, Peter White's journal is one of the most
extraordinary stories to come out of the Second World War. As a
24-year-old lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, Peter
kept an unauthorised journal of his regiment's advance through the
Low Countries and into Germany in the closing months of the war in
Europe.
Forbidden by his commanding officer from doing so for security
reasons, Peter's boyhood habit of diary-keeping had become an
obsession too strong to shake off. Each day he found time to record
in copious detail the war going on around him, the lives and deaths
of the men with whom he served, and the inexorable Allied advance
into the Third Reich.
In one of the most graphic and finely crafted evocations of a
soldier at war, the images he records are not for the
faint-hearted. There are heroes aplenty within its pages, but there
are also disturbing insights into the darker side of humanity,
frequently brushed aside in many other war accounts - the men who
broke under the strain and who ran away (sometimes with tragic
results); the binge drinking that occasionally rendered the whole
platoon unable to fight; the looting and the callous disregard for
human life that happens when death is a daily companion.
Hidden away for more than fifty years, White's diary is a
remarkable account of the horrors of war experienced by a British
soldier in the greatest conflict of the twentieth century.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
