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Contents
What Had Gone Before | 1 |
A Good Day for Huns | 9 |
Work and Play | 19 |
The Uncompromising Sea | 35 |
A Very Good Ride | 47 |
Scramble Red Section | 57 |
Adventures in Sicily | 67 |
Foe or Friend | 85 |
Monte Cassino | 113 |
Normandy | 121 |
Le Paysan | 143 |
The Yorkshireman | 157 |
Epilogue | 171 |
Poem Lament for Humanity 1944 | 173 |
Appendices | 175 |
References | 181 |
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