A memoir of World War II by the British actor, Derek Bond, who entered the Brigade of Guards where he served in North Africa, was wounded and invalided home with an MC for his valour. He returned to the Third Battalion in Italy and was captured in Florence, having been led to believe that the Germans had evacuated the city, and spent the rest of the war as prisoner.
Derek Bond is better remembered as an actor than as a soldier and certainly deserves a measure of immortality for his portrayal on Nicholas Nickleby. His career as an actor, however, was still very much in its infancy when Hitler invaded Poland and Bond abandoned the boards for the drill square.
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Librería: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: USED_GOOD. Derek Bond is better remembered as an actor then a soldier and certainly deserves a measure of immortality for his portrayal of Nicolas Nickleby. His career as an actor, however, was very much in its infancy when Hitler invaded poland, and Bond abandon the boards for the drill square. His height naturally propelled him towards the Brigade of Guards and he was soon bulling his boots with the best of them. Though his background was not such as is normally associated with Officers in the Brigade, he was judged to be Officer material, commissioned into the Grenadier Guards and posted to the Third Battalion. More intensive training followed before the Battalion was sent to North Africa invalided home, earning an MC for his pains. Recuperation was followed by a spell as an instructor before he was reunited with the Third Batalion in italy. An unlucky swan into Florence, which he had mistakenly been led to believe the Germans has evacuated, resulted in his capture and he spent the rest of the war as a prisoner. This is not a book which sets out to expound the glories of war, nor does the author pretend that these were the best years of his life. He wrote it, as he says, because so many of his younger friends, to whom the war is a matter of history rather then memory, kept asking him what it was like. Whatever the reason, he tells the story of his military career with a degree of charm, wit and modesty which will come as no surprise to those familiar with the work of this highly talented actor- and writer. Nº de ref. del artículo: AMPLE0850520460
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