Buy this book on-line COCHRANE, D.S.O, M.C., PETER: : CHARLIE COMPANY - IN SERVICE WITH C COMPANY 2ND QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS 1940-44UK.STROUD,GLOUCESTERSHIRE.SPELLMOUNT LIMITED.2007. ISBN 9781862273658.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus. [Originally and first published 1977,CHATTO & WINDUS Ltd (London).This edn the first re-issue of that previous edition.] NMINT/NMINT. Wrapped+ protected from day of issue/purchase,so no owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj with khaki and b/w lettering to front panel,khaki+white lettered spine/ backstrip,rear panel with khaki background and a superimposed thumbnail b/w author's portrait photograph and a critic's black-lettered review; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edes bright and clean without blemish or ageing/toning; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,vi-xiipp+ 1-178pp [paginated] includes foreword by Professor Gary Sheffield,list of b/w maps (5), author's note,author's introduction,IX(9) chapters,8pp b/w contemporary photographs in 1 block, between pp84/5 and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.
Most books about WW2 usually offer the general's view of an entire battlefield,others have been individual experiences or divisional histories.'CHARLIE COMPANY' is something original.
This is the story of a rifle company of the Cameron Highlanders whose record of service in the Western Desert,Eritrea,and throughout the Italian campaign fully deserves this tribute to their courage and endurance.
The author joined the company as a young platoon commander in 1940.He won an MC in their first action in Libya,and followed this with a DSO for his part in the assault on Keren.Badly wounded there,he missed the disaster at Tobruk, but was back as company commander at Monte Cassino and afterwards for the long haul up Italy.
From his own experience he has told the remarkable story of a small group of soldiers of whom any country would be proud.The stresses and horrors of war are there,but so is the humour and the wonderful spirit of men whose morale was somehow sustained to the very end.It is a deeply moving book.
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