Battles of a Gunner Officer: Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, and the Long Road to Germany
Battles of a Gunner Officer: Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, and the Long Road to Germany
Pen & Sword | 2014 | 244 pages | ISBN: 147383502X | ePub (e-book) | 17 MB
What was it like to serve as an artillery officer during the Second World War? How did he view the battlefield and experience combat? And how did his work with the guns combine with that of the other arms - the infantry, the tanks? Peter Pettit's diary, covering his entire wartime career in the Royal Artillery, edited and with an extensive introduction by John Philip Jones, offers a rare insight into the day-to-day existence of a gunner at war, and it is a valuable record of the role played by the Royal Artillery during the conflict.