Название: Once a Hussar: A Memoir of Battle, Capture and Escape in the Second World War
Автор: Ray Ellis
Издательство: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1781593906
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 228
Размер: 3,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded this well-written, candid, and perceptive memoir of the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago.
As an impressionable teenager, filled with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country.
He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of the Second World War and started a journey that would take him through fierce fighting in the Western Desert, the deprivation suffered in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp and a daring escape to join the partisan forces in the Appenines.