Eddie Norman and 25 battalion /
"When World War Two broke out, three theological students left their college in Auckland to the sound of bagpipes and volunteered to fight. Eddie Norman, aged 22 from Hawke's Bay, was one of them. A natural leader, his first experience of action was at El Alamein in 1942 as a platoon comma...
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Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand :
The Cuba Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Christopher Pugsley
- Prologue
- The black night of 21 July
- Do right and fear nothing
- Second Lieutenant
- Heat, rain and mosquitoes
- Wasting time in Maadi
- War in the Western Desert
- On the Alamein front
- Lightfoot and supercharge
- The chase to Tripoli
- A little bit of luxury
- A brilliant attack
- Barley fields and box mines
- A well-earned break
- Midwinter on the Sangro
- The furnace of Cassino
- A short sharp battle
- The bitter fight for Florence
- Struggling through the wet and mud
- Christmas day again
- Breakthrough on the Senio
- The end of the business
- Epilogue