Marching to the Sound of Gunfire

"In Marching to the Sound of Gunfire, scores of British soldiers from almost every echelon of the British Army tell their amazing stories of life - and death - at the sharp end. In the eleven months of frenzied warfare that followed D-Day, these soldiers successfully drove the Nazi hordes back into their Fatherland and beat them into surrender." "Illustrated with contemporary photographs and sketches, Marching to the Sound of Gunfire will bring back memories of fearful apprehension as the landing craft breached on the foreshores of Normandy, the sheer elation experienced at the liberation of towns and villages in France and the Low Countries, the tragedy of 'Market Garden', and the final brutal battles to pierce the Siegfried Line and reach the Baltic." "Marching to the Sound of Gunfire also looks at themes as varied as the landscape over which the battles were fought; of being wounded or taken prisoner; of the paradox of 'friendly fire'; of the daily life-or-death decisions that needed to be made by the humble private up to the divisional general; and of battles lost and won. It is also the story of how the young soldiers marched to the sound of gunfire, won a resounding victory, and led Winston Churchill to declare: 'This is your victory ... we have never seen a greater day than this.'"--BOOK JACKET.