A fast-paced account by a soldier who was twice decorated. Charlie Martin, company sergeant-major in the Queen’s Own, was with his beloved A Company in all of the significant Normandy actions.
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 940.54/8171
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781770700741
- LCCN
- D811
- LCCN Item number
- M376 1996eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xv, 191 p., [32] p. of plates)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00603070 (OCoLC)244769150 (CaOOCEL)410502
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- List of Maps 7
- Foreword 8
- Preface 10
- Prologue: A Profile of Charlie Martin and the Times That Were 12
- D-Day: Bernières-sur-Mer 18
- Le Mesnil-Patry: A Price to Pay 35
- Bray and Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse: Reinforcements Arrive 41
- Patrols: The Silent Stalkers of A Company 47
- Battle for Carpiquet Airport: Five Days of Bombardment 70
- In-ground Living: Foxholes and Slit Trenches 74
- Gaimanche: Hot Water and Clean Underwear 77
- Battles of Colombelles and Giberville: An Objective Too Far 79
- Grentheville, Bourquébus Ridge and Fontaine Henry: Beaches – This Time Friendly 85
- Quesnay Wood on the Road to Falaise: Hedgerow 87
- Robert-Mesnil and Maizières on the Falaise Road 94
- Maizières: Scenes of Total War 100
- After Normandy: The Changes Sink In 103
- The Pursuit across France 106
- Boulogne: The First Port 108
- Calais: Bombs Dug In and Wired 132
- The Scheldt Estuary, Bresken's Pocket and the Battle of Oostburg 137
- The Last Pillbox at Bresken: And Joe Meagher's Wound 145
- Support: Mortars, Carriers and Anti-tanks 149
- The Nijmegen Bridgehead: Taking Over from the 82nd Airborne 151
- The Day Bert Shepherd Kept Quiet 156
- The Waal Flats at Nijmegen: A Minefield in the Dark 158
- In the Rhineland: Teacups and Rum 163
- The Calcar-Udem Road: Mooshof and Steeg, the Rhineland's Toughest Fighting 165
- Hochwald-Balberger Wald Road 175
- Rest Periods: Another Version 179
- Crossing the Rhine 182
- The Bridge at Rha and Its Buildings: First War Mud 183
- The Village of Sneek: The Last Battle 190
- Epilogue 196
- Acknowledgments 198
- Appendices 200
- A: Letters 200
- B: The Big Two Bugle Newsletter of the Queen's Own 219
- C: Signed Recommendations for DCM and MM Awarded to Charles Cromwell Martin with Letters of Congratulation 223
- D: Honours Awarded to Members of A Company, The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada 228
- E: Members of A Company, The Queen's Own Rifles, as of June 3–6, 1944 229
- F: Nominal Role of A Company, The Queen's Own Rifles, after Reinforcement and before the Battle of the Scheldt 235
