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Rob Barlett

A superb and very down to earth account of a private soldier who joined the Commandos in late 1943, and participated in all the subsequent actions of No.3 Commando, from D-Day and the months of hard fighting in Normandy alongside the 6th Airborne Division, to their entry into Germany in March 1945. Scott also dwells on life outside the Commandos, including his partially successful but ultimately frustrated attempt to join the Army despite being well under the legal age, and his brief post-war service with the Military Police before demobilisation. It is a very involving story which describes the lot of the ordinary infantryman and the terrifying, humorous and bizarre situations which are thrown his way. Above all else this is a brilliant account of one man's Normandy campaign, and it will occupy a proud place in the library of Commando memoirs.

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