Author : Robert Woollcombe
Release : 2014-06-02
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 957/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lion Rampant by : Robert Woollcombe
Download or read book Lion Rampant written by Robert Woollcombe. This book was released on 2014-06-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.