An edition of Once a hussar
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Once a hussar
a memoir of battle, capture, and escape in world war ii
by Ray Ellis
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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.
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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, World war, 1939-1945, regimental histories, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, british, Great britain, biography, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, africa, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, Prisoners of war, Italy, biography, British Personal narratives, Italian Prisoners and prisons, World war, 1939-1945, europe, World war, 1939-1945, biographyPeople
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Once a Hussar: A Memoir of Battle, Capture and Escape in the Second World War
2014, Pen & Sword Books Limited
in English
1783830166 9781783830169
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Once a hussar: a memoir of battle, capture, and escape in world war ii
2014, W W Norton
in English
1629140813 9781629140810
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Once a Hussar: A Memoir of Battle, Capture and Escape in the Second World War
2014, Pen & Sword Books Limited
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1783467835 9781783467839
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Once a Hussar: A Memoir of Battle, Capture and Escape in the Second World War
2013, Pen & Sword Books Limited
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1781593906 9781781593905
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Table of Contents
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Chapter 1: In the Beginning; Chapter 2: In Sunny Palestine; Chapter 3: Mersa Matruh
a First Taste of War; Chapter 4: In Action near Sidi Barani; Chapter 5: Gennia; Chapter 6: Suez; Chapter 7: Tobruk
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.
Chapter 17: Massa FermanaChapter 18: A Journey to the Mountains; Chapter 19: One of the Family; Chapter 20: Repatriation; Photo Insert.
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