For Five a Shillings A Day - Dr Richard Campbell Begg and Dr Peter Liddle.

Personal histories of World War Two.

Large sized paperback in good second hand condition.

Fascinating, moving, frightening, sometimes comic, this selection of eyewitness accounts form a magnificent oral history of the British and Commonwealth forces at war. Veterans from the Army, RAF and Royal Navy reveal what it was like at the sharp end from 1939 through to the Battle of Britain, the Desert War, the fall of Singapore, the Italian Campaign, D-Day, to the occupation of Germany and the war in Burma. They include fighter pilots, nurses, gunners,tank crew, a destroyer captain, bomber crew, commandos, Chindits and paratroopers. Their experiences on land, sea, in the air - and in some cases as prisoners of the Germans or Japanese - form uniquely personal history of the greatest conflict of the 20th century.