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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. 1977. Some light tanning. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> CHARLIE COMPANY is something original the story of a rifle company of the Cameron Highlanders whose record of service in the Western Desert Eritrea and throughout the Italian campaign fully deserves this tribute to their courage and endurance. Peter Cochrane joined the company as a young platoon commander in 1940. He won an MC in their first action in Libya and followed this with a DSO for his part in the grim assault on Keren. Badly wounded there he missed the disaster at Tobruk but was back as company commander at Monte Cassino and afterwards for the long haul up Italy. From his own experience he has told the remarkable story of a small group of soldiers of whom any country would be proud. The stresses and horrors of war are there but so is the humour and the wonderful spirit of men whose morale was somehow sustained to the very end. It is a deeply moving book. (LL)