Once a hussar
Subtitle: a memoir of battle, capture, and escape in world war ii
Publisher: W W Norton
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781629140810; 9781628737295
Subjects: Campaigns; Ancient; Great Britain. Army. South Notts Hussars; Guerrillas; Great Britain; Prisoner-of-war escapes; Biography; World War, 1939-1945; Soldiers; History; Regimental histories; Military campaigns; HISTORY
Description: Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded this well-written, candid, and perceptive memoir of the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago. As an impressionable teenager, filled with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country. He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of the Second World War and started a journey that would take him through fierce fighting in the Western Desert, the deprivation suffered in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp and a daring escape to join the partisa.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Chapter 1: In the Beginning; Chapter 2: In Sunny Palestine; Chapter 3: Mersa Matruh; title: a First Taste of War; Chapter 4: In Action near Sidi Barani; Chapter 5: Gennia; Chapter 6: Suez; Chapter 7: Tobruk; title: The First Battle; Chapter 8: Life During the Siege of Tobruk; Chapter 9: The Break-out from Tobruk; Chapter 10: In the Nile Delta; Chapter 11: The Battle of Knightsbridge; Chapter 12: First Days as a Prisoner of War; Chapter 13: A Nightmare Journey; Chapter 14: The Winter at Camp 53; Chapter 15: A Bid for Freedom; Chapter 16: Running Free.; title: Chapter 17: Massa FermanaChapter 18: A Journey to the Mountains; Chapter 19: One of the Family; Chapter 20: Repatriation; Photo Insert.