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One Man’s War by James Ambrose Brown

R100.00

James Ambrose Brown was born in Scotland in 1919 and educated in Edinburgh and Kilmarnock, came to South Africa with his parents in 1936. Went to the front during World War II, then returned to become a well-known Johannesburg journalist. This is his WWII North African diary as a young soldier of 22.

Hardcover with Dust Coat
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Cape Town, South Africa: Howard Timmins, 1980. 185 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8″ H). B&w photographs. “Apart from its importance as an historical narrative the story told in these pages by a 22-year-old soldier has the unique quality of experience freshly captured – the truth of a soldier’s life in the critical battles fought in North Africa in 1941-42. It is a personal view of war with its boredom, its moments of terror, of tenderness and humour and its final realisation that war is not a glorious game. It is written from the limited viewpoint of a young N.C.O. with his self-doubt, his fantasies and his moments of despair. It chronicles the handful of men around him, a section of mortarmen, griping, idle, insubordinate, extra ordinarily light-hearted, never failing when courage was demanded – and finally dying together in the great and bloody battle of El Alamein which is the climax of the diary. Told in a day-to-day, sometimes hour-by-hour account, (this) is a book that will touch a responsive chord in the heart of every man who has borne arms – in any army.