The Poor Bloody Infantry
Author: Charles Whiting
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1989-09-01
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780099657705
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Author: Charles Whiting
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1989-09-01
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780099657705
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Published: 1989
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Whiting
Publisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781862273771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNobody in the Second World War paid a higher price for the failure of politicians and generals than the infantry, whatever their nationality. Most battalions had a 100 per cent turn over due to casualties, some as high as 200 per cent. The majority of histories of the Second World War focus on what are perceived to be the more glamorous aspects of the conflict: flying aces, new technologies, politics. However, Charles Whiting's classic book, now reprinted in paperback is in the author's own words not a history. Poor Bloody Infantry is the story of the brave men whose efforts were so central to Allied victory but which has been gravely neglected by many writers on the Second World War. Whiting's vivid account of their experiences puts the reader in the thick of their struggles: firing useless Boyes rifles at oncoming SS tanks; crouching low in foxholes beneath a yellow incandescence as the surrounding dessert rocks and roars. Detailed and personal in scope, Poor Bloody Infantry deals with all aspects of the uncomfortable day-to-day life of infantrymen in the Second World War ranging from experiences in combat to such matters as foul tinned rations and VD.
Author: Bernard Martin
Publisher: John Murray Publishers
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780719543746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Henry Archibald Groom
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780906725016
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Whiting
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The six year nightmare of World War II was nowhere more hellish than in the slit trenches -- living graves where distressingly callow infantrymen did their best to be heroes. Raked and pounded in the fields of Northern France, burned and bombarded in the Western Desert, steaming and rotting in the jungles of South East Asia, the P.B.I -- Poor Bloody Infantry -- saw the sharp end of war, far from home and often far from hope ... From the half-mad dream of training camps where they polished their insteps and scrubbed floors with toothbrushes, these young men in their field grey, olive drab and khaki ... had been sent packing into the teeth of the German war machine, waking up to the terrifying reality of the front, and sometimes the beyond of human endurance. They came face to face with their enemies as drawing room generals can never do, fought and died, rejoiced in their mates, sang songs, told black jokes and looked forward to the 'dixies' of stew, the postcards from home and the breathers between bombardments"--Jacket.
Author: B. K. Martin
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Published: 1987
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gordon Reid
Publisher: Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Louise Roberts
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-04-20
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 022675314X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe senses -- The dirty body -- The foot -- The wound -- The corpse.