The Time of the Soldier by Fred Airey

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at top edge and at spine. Small scratch on top front cover. Interior and binding are excellent.

The time of the soldier was an age that required duty, sacrifice and heroism of whole generations of ordinary men, in the two most destructive wars. It is a time fast vanishing from living memory.

Fred Airey fought in both WWI and WWII, not for some high political ideal, but with an overriding sense of the dignity of the common man. From the bloody trenches of Flanders to the brutality of the Burma railways, his unshakable faith and sense of mission kept him fighting, both in and out of uniform.

In one of the most remarkable stories, Airey begins his account with his harrowing childhood in rural Lancashire and ends with his liberation from Japanese after three years as a prisoner. Along the way, he receives a medal for bravery in the field, survives a massacre and nearly perishes in a futile escape attempt in a leaky boat. (book flap)