Written shortly after the war--but never before published--Bowen's narrative is immediate, direct, and compelling. His account, one of the few by a member of a glider regiment, is a brutal insight into the battlefields of World War II and a vivid recreation of just what life was like in an elite unit.
Written shortly after the war--but never before published--Bowen's narrative is immediate, direct, and compelling. His account, one of the few by a member of a glider regiment, is a brutal insight into the battlefields of World War II and a vivid recreation of just what life was like in an elite unit.