Battle diary : from D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee and VE / Charles Cromwell Martin with Roy Whitsed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Charles Cromwell, 1918- author.

Whitsed, Roy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Martin, Charles Cromwell, 1918-.

Martin, Charles Cromwell.

Canada. Canadian Army. Queen's Own Rifles of Canada--Biography.

Canada.

World War, 1939-1945--Canada.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Canadian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Canada : Dundurn Press, [1994]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; List of Maps; Foreword; Preface; Prologue: A Profile of Charlie Martin and the Times That Were; D-Day: Bernières-sur-Mer; Le Mesnil-Patry: A Price to Pay; Bray and Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse: Reinforcements Arrive; Patrols: The Silent Stalkers of A Company; Battle for Carpiquet Airport: Five Days of Bombardment; In-ground Living: Foxholes and Slit Trenches; Gaimanche: Hot Water and Clean Underwear; Battles of Colombelles and Giberville: An Objective Too Far; Grentheville, Bourquébus Ridge and Fontaine Henry: Beaches - This Time Friendly; Quesnay Wood on the Road to Falaise: Hedgerow

Robert-Mesnil and Maizières on the Falaise RoadMaizières: Scenes of Total War; After Normandy: The Changes Sink In; The Pursuit across France; Boulogne: The First Port; Calais: Bombs Dug In and Wired; The Scheldt Estuary, Bresken's Pocket and the Battle of Oostburg; The Last Pillbox at Bresken: And Joe Meagher's Wound; Support: Mortars, Carriers and Anti-tanks; The Nijmegen Bridgehead: Taking Over from the 82nd Airborne; The Day Bert Shepherd Kept Quiet; The Waal Flats at Nijmegen: A Minefield in the Dark; In the Rhineland: Teacups and Rum

The Calcar-Udem Road: Mooshof and Steeg, the Rhineland's Toughest FightingHochwald-Balberger Wald Road; Rest Periods: Another Version; Crossing the Rhine; The Bridge at Rha and Its Buildings: First War Mud; The Village of Sneek: The Last Battle; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Appendices; A: Letters; B: The Big Two Bugle Newsletter of the Queen's Own; C: Signed Recommendations for DCM and MM Awarded to Charles Cromwell Martin with Letters of Congratulation; D: Honours Awarded to Members of A Company, The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada

E: Members of A Company, The Queen's Own Rifles, as of June 3-6, 1944F: Nominal Role of A Company, The Queen's Own Rifles, after Reinforcement and before the Battle of the Scheldt

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786611962326

9786612808982

9781281962324

1281962325

9781554880928

1554880920

9781282808980

1282808982

9781770700741

1770700749

OCLC:

244769150