From The City, From The Plough

This is the story of soldiers of the Fifth Battalion, the Wessex Regiment in the run up to and after D-Day. Although fictional, it comes directly out of the author's own experience, and is regarded as one of the most accurate and unsentimental portrayals of the ordinary soldier's life anywhere in fi [...]
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This is the story of soldiers of the Fifth Battalion, the Wessex Regiment in the run up to and after D-Day. Although fictional, it comes directly out of the author's own experience, and is regarded as one of the most accurate and unsentimental portrayals of the ordinary soldier's life anywhere in fiction. First published in 1948, it was a huge bestseller, selling half a million copies. There have been enthusiastic endorsements of the book on recent blogs from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, confirming Baron's uncanny knack of capturing the soldier's experience.