THE WAR ON LAND 1939-1945

"This anthology is...a distillation of what the fighters put down at thetime or in retrospect to tell others (or perhaps convince themselves) whatit was all about. Here are the words of the wise, the witty, thenonchalant, the devil-may-care: the poets and the prodigals." - From theEditor's Foreword. On land, the Second World War provided an infinitevariety of experience, often under stresses as great as human beings haveendured. Reactions are correspondingly various - from the comic to theappalled. Here are the testimonies of those who fought in all the greatcampaigns - in Europe, Africa and the Far East. Here too are the words ofprisoners, partisans, saboteurs and soldiers in private armies. This isthe third volume in the unique "Freedom's Battle" trilogy, which providesintensely vivid accounts of war at sea, in the air and on land. Far betterthan any single narrative, the extracts build up a complete picture of theWar as it was experienced by the men and women who actually fought in it.