{"product_id":"my-wartime-wanderings-from-the-western-desert-to-berlin-with-the-1st-battalion-the-rifle-brigade-9781789631746","title":"My Wartime Wanderings: From the Western Desert to Berlin with the 1st Battalion, the Rifle Brigade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKen Phillips\u003c\/strong\u003e enlisted at the start of World War 2 and joined the Rifle Brigade. He was sent to North Africa where he was part of an anti-tank division engaged in a rolling battle across Egypt and Libya against one of Germany's top generals and his superior panzers. Ken endured eighteen months of sandstorms and flies, supply issues and poor rations, travelling over two thousand miles of wreck-strewn desert in increasingly cannibalised battalions and vehicles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLater, Ken would be redeployed in the shelled-out countryside of Italy before taking part in the Western push through Europe following the D-Day landings, beating back a wounded but still-fighting German line. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA powerful and intimate memoir, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Wartime Wanderings\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eis not a sweeping, broad-swathe account of the Second World War; it is a personal account of one man's journey through the deadliest conflict in human history, the loss of life, the upheaval of nations, but also the monotony of the day-to-day and the reality and practicalities of life in the British Army. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through Ken's own memoirs, with snippets of his letters home, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Wartime Wanderings \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis a must read for those interested in the reality behind the silver-screen images of the Second World War: a story of seven years, seven months and twenty-four days in uniform. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-14414657\"\u003eKenneth L. Phillips\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Choir Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781789631746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1789631742\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS027100\"\u003eWars \u0026amp; Conflicts | World War II | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Choir Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43830724231307,"sku":"9781789631746","price":23.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_d9178b24-2825-439a-949b-dbe2ec361bad.jpg?v=1755584344","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/my-wartime-wanderings-from-the-western-desert-to-berlin-with-the-1st-battalion-the-rifle-brigade-9781789631746","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}