Biography & Autobiography Military
Battle Diary
From D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee and VE
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 1996
- Category
- Military, World War II, Canada
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550022131
- Publish Date
- Jul 1996
- List Price
- $21.99
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781550022148
- Publish Date
- Jan 1994
- List Price
- $16.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554880928
- Publish Date
- Jul 1996
- List Price
- $12.99
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Description
A fast-paced account by a soldier who was twice decorated. Charlie Martin, company sergeant-major in the Queen’s Own, was with his beloved A Company in all of the significant Normandy actions.
About the authors
Charles Cromwell Martin, DCM, MM, CM, became at twenty-four one of the youngest company sergeant-majors in the history of the Queen's Own, Canada's historic rifle regiment. Since the war, Charlie has lived, very happily, with his war bride Vi, working for the Department of Agriculture, raising a family, and in more recent years battling – and winning – on the golf course with his sons and grandchildren.
Editorial Reviews
As well as being an absorbing read, Battle Diary is an important book — important because it concerns a critical period in our country's history.
Minister of National Defence