A soldier's story, Mike Wood
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A soldier's story, Mike Wood
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non fiction
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A soldier's story
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Mike Wood
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Neville volunteered in 1939, at the age of eighteen, to join the British Army's Tyne-Tees 50th Northumbrian Division. As a driver for the Royal Army Service Corps, Timber's job was to get ammunition and high explosives to the front line. It was a job with a high casualty rate, sometimes higher than front-line troops. The 50th Division was the principal fighting division of the British Army in the Second World War. It was last off the beach at Dunkirk and the first back on it on D-Day. The division was at the heart of El Alamein and the Sicily landings and fought all the way from Normandy to Germany. This book, written by his son Mike, is based on Neville's extensive wartime diaries and original documents he retained from the war as well as on long conversations between the two of them when Mike transcribed the diaries as a gift for his father in 2006
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