The intriguing story of Bob Jones' D-Day experiences and his later calling to Normandy. As always truth is indeed stranger than fiction and, many decades after Bob is shocked by the dead bodies of retreating German soldiers, he learns the other side of the same story from a chance acquaintance.
“Having lived through this once in a lifetime experience of enormous highs and lows, of emotions, fears and elations — of which many stories have been written and told, plus films and documentaries — so that as far as I was concerned I felt there could be nothing new to me until this experience and I was totally convinced that this incident recounted by my German friend was of the very same place and time ...”
Bob Jones
Memories recalled, relived and shared by a veteran at the age of 90:
THE FIRST PART — D-Day itself and the weeks that follow
THE SECOND PART — the young man struggling to find life and a purpose after the war is over. These pages as fresh and useful now, for today’s soldiers and politicians to read, as the world continues to fight, so long after the war to end all wars ...
LES MÉMOIRES DE CE 6 JUIN 1944 et L’HISTOIRE D’UN VÉTÉRAN
DU 6 JUIN 1944 — en français, grâce à Paul de Backer pour la traduction
Both English and French versions within the same book.
“Having lived through this once in a lifetime experience of enormous highs and lows, of emotions, fears and elations — of which many stories have been written and told, plus films and documentaries — so that as far as I was concerned I felt there could be nothing new to me until this experience and I was totally convinced that this incident recounted by my German friend was of the very same place and time ...”
Bob Jones
Memories recalled, relived and shared by a veteran at the age of 90:
THE FIRST PART — D-Day itself and the weeks that follow
THE SECOND PART — the young man struggling to find life and a purpose after the war is over. These pages as fresh and useful now, for today’s soldiers and politicians to read, as the world continues to fight, so long after the war to end all wars ...
LES MÉMOIRES DE CE 6 JUIN 1944 et L’HISTOIRE D’UN VÉTÉRAN
DU 6 JUIN 1944 — en français, grâce à Paul de Backer pour la traduction
Both English and French versions within the same book.
