For Five Shillings a Day: Experiencing War, 1939-45 edited by Richard Campbell Begg and Peter Liddle

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges including a small tear to spine top, now protected by book tape. Pages are sunned.

Cover title: For Five Shillings a Day: ANZAC and Allies Fighting in the Second World War.

The oral history of the British and Commonwealth forces 1939-45.

Veterans from Army, RAF and Navy reveal what it was like at the sharp end from 1939 to the Battle of Britain, the Desert War, the fall of Singapore, the Italian campaign, D-Day, to the occupation of Germany and the war in Burma.

They include fighter pilots, nurses, gunners, tank crews, a destroyer captain, bomber crews, commandos, Chindits and paratroopers. Their experiences on land, sea, in the air and as prisoners of war form a uniquely personal history. (back cover)