Battle Diary: From D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee and Ve

In this book, Sergeant-Major Charles Cromwell recounts his own first-hand experiences of the Canadian arms of the D-Day landings. Like the hit movie "Saving Private Ryan", this book is told in vivid, easy to understand - "readable" english. Here he vividly recreates the horrors of the landings, and how these (like the American landing at Ohmaha), went wrong. He then takes us past the landings and on a journey through the next few months. He takes us through the sweep into France and through the push into Germany. It's a true story of "how men became veterans who had to learn fast at the 'point' or they were gone." Because these horors happened - that alone is reason enough that books like these must be read so that we may be even more thankful for the freedoms we share today.