How the Cockleshell Commandos upset Nazi supply lines with canoes!
How a British Royal Fusilier survived for 3 years as a German POW.
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9 Dunkirk Diaries of Major Leslie Petch OBE WWII
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7 D-Day Diary of D Gray Part 2
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