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1 online resource (xv, 191 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Martin, Charles Cromwell, 1918-
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Martin, Charles Cromwell, 1918- fast |
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Canada. Canadian Army. Queen's Own Rifles of Canada -- Biography
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Canada. Canadian Army. Queen's Own Rifles of Canada fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Canadian
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Canada
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Whitsed, Roy.
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| LC no. |
94197246 |
| ISBN |
9781554880928 |
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1554880920 |
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9786611962326 |
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6611962328 |
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1281962325 |
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9781281962324 |
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1282808982 |
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9781282808980 |
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9786612808982 |
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6612808985 |
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1770700749 |
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9781770700741 |
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