Verlag:
Helion & Company Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35661732
EAN: 9781804519592
Auf Lager:
10+
Zustellung: Do, 10.09.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
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Beschreibung
Reluctant recruit-turned front-line officer recounts the demanding, often brutal trials of Commando warfare across Gibraltar, Italy, and Albania, detailing training hardships, combat fear, and a soldier's struggle to reconcile duty and survival. Soldier of Misfortune. is the previously unpublished wartime memoir of Martin Ferrey, who served as a front-line officer with No. 9 Commando during the Second World War. Beginning as a reluctant recruit in the Scots Guards in 1940, Ferrey passed through Sandhurst before volunteering for the Army Commandos, with whom he would serve in Gibraltar, Italy and Albania during some of the hardest fighting of the Mediterranean campaign. Ferrey trained at Achnacarry and Lochailort during the formative years of the Commandos before taking part in operations including the raid on the Tremiti Islands, the Anzio landings and the savage fighting around Mount Ornito north of the Garigliano River, where he was badly wounded. He also served during operations in Albania as Allied forces sought to disrupt German withdrawals from the Balkans. Written with remarkable honesty, humour and self-awareness, Ferrey's memoir captures both the absurdity and brutality of wartime soldiering. He writes vividly about the hardships of training, the realities of Commando operations, the fear and confusion of combat, and the physical and psychological consequences of battle. Along the way he encounters a fascinating cast of wartime figures, including Randolph Churchill, Evelyn Waugh, Lord Mountbatten and many of Britain's most famous special forces soldiers. Supplemented by family letters, photographs and editorial notes, Soldier of Misfortune. is both a compelling Commando memoir and an unusually thoughtful account of one officer's struggle to reconcile courage, fear, duty and survival in wartime.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Vincent Hunt
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 184