Lion Rampant

Robert Woollcombe

• 02 juni 2014
• 9781845027957

Samenvatting:

Lion Rampant is Robert Woollcombe"s graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King"s Own Scottish Borderers during the desperate battle for Normandy and the Allied advance into Germany. Vividly evoking the confusion, horror and comradeship of war – from the killing fields of Normandy bocage, through house-to-house fighting in shattered Flemish towns, to the final Rhine crossing – Lion Rampant is a powerful, authentic and moving story, telling with extraordinary clarity how the author, his fellow officers and the men of his company lived through one of the most bitter campaigns in history.