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

About the book >.>.> Maj. “Max” Morrison had certainly earned the award of his Military Cross but typically gave the full credit to his seasick men who had-like himself-just received their first baptism of fire: A few days later he would be seri- ously wounded at Tilly-sur-Seulles and evacuated home to spend six months in hospital. Returning near the year’s end as a company commander in the East Lancashire Reg iment he earned his Bar to the MC for “cool leadership and imperturbable behaviour under fire as the citation reads during possibly the worst fighting conditions encountered in the whole northwest European campaign? in the grim Reichwald Forest battle. His active war ended on 9 May 1945 after passing the Rhine and reaching the Weser River as Germany surrendered. Although he came of military stock (his ancestors includ- ed the commanding officer of the Liverpool Irish during the Boer War of 1899-1902 and further back still he could claim kinship with the famous Irish rebel of the 1790s Wolfe Tone) he was by prewar profession a rugby-football- playing advertising executive whose grandfather had built Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral. Always a modest man he had no illusions about fighting. “There is no glamour in war he would often say “I took risks to save lives” This then was the story of a single British citizen-sol- dier in many ways typical of millions of ordinary people called up to wear uniform who eventually fought in the Anglo-American armies in Normandy (and beyond) dur ing that long hot summer. The incidents that carned han his first decoration were repeated a hundrediold by whic of many nations in the drop zones foe beaches and na inland beachhead on the dramat Je day Chulya selative handful reserved formal go of these achievements although Sa Sankey Mall of Hands and Alew Chakes Myok of the Royal Cie Victory Cross