North Africa memoir request

I was wondering if anyone here could recommend me a Infantry Soldier memoir in the North African Campaign. I Read ones by British and American Soldier's who fought in Europe from Italy to Germany and US Marines fighting from Guadalcanal to Okinawa in the Pacific. Starting to read one about Burma but still haven't been able to find one in North Africa. I been able to find ones by tank crews, artillery, SAS and combat correspondents but none by Infantryman.

 

Rifleman - A Front Line Life by Victor Gregg.

Kind regards, always,

Jim.

 

Might be worth a look: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fighting-Through-Dunkirk-Hamburg-Howards/dp/1526783703

He, Will Cheall, fought in France, then to Operation Torch and after Tunisia onwards to Italy and France. The book was edited by his son, Paul Cheall.

Paul went onto doing podcasts, at a glance several episodes interviewing North African veterans there. See: Fighting Through WW2 memoirs podcast

Many hits on the surname using the site's simple search option.

 

A personal favourite is John Horsfall's account, 'The Wild Geese are Flighting' - when he was OC of D Coy, 1st Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers from the time the battalion left Liverpool bound for Algeria in November 1942 and their six months of fighting with 1st Army in Tunisia - he wrote three outstanding books about his experiences in France in 1939/40, in the UK and Tunisia in 1942/43 and in Italy in1944/45.

Faugh a Ballagh

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Diary of a Desert Rat by R.L. Crimp, he was in 2 Rifle Brigade.

All the best

Andreas

 

Just read this and can't praise enough.
Travers

 

Read Peter Cox's books
- Good luck to all the lads -Story of Machine Gun Platoon attached to infantry in North Africa
&
-Desert War – The Battle of Sidi Rezegh - Best discription of this Battle from a soldiers view

Go to
Remembering the Battle of Sidi Rezegh

 

I will have to keep an eye open for this while I am in the UK I do love a used bookstore!

 

Hi Chris

I'll get a copy for you and bring it with me. (It will give you more time to browse for other books!)

Lesley

 

Oh, that is too kind! I just remembered that my friend in Surrey wants to give me a couple of books too. How can I pack more lightly...?

Chris

 

Soldiering on : a soldier's war in North Africa and Italy, John Blythe, London ; Auckland [N.Z.] : Hutchinson, 1989. (ISBN: 9781869410445)