A Soldier's Tale: Memoirs of an English Soldier
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This is the extraordinary wartime story of John Boot, who joined the Territorial Army in 1938, just before the Second World War.
This book takes us through the drill halls and training camps and into mainland Europe, where, after the outbreak of the Second World War, John was in the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium.
Being wounded, John returned to England and spent the next few years of the war in Southern England. He returned to France three days after D-Day and advanced through Belgium and Holland into Germany.
John's war didn't end with the cessation of hostilities in 1945 - his book tells how he was one of the few to enter Hitler's bunker in Berlin and of his work as a bodyguard to Churchill at the Potsdam Conference where the three superpowers (Britain, America and the Soviet Union) agreed on Germany's demilitarisation and changes to its borders.
John's journey ends in 1946 where it began, at home in Buckinghamshire.