Peter Crichton

To War with a 4th Hussar (eBook, ePUB)

Fighting in Greece, North Africa & The Balkans

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This vivid WWII memoir recounts the exploits of a 4th Queen's Own Hussar through the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatre of combat. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Peter Crichton was quick to enlist and escape his journalistic job in London. The adventuresome young man transferred to the 4th Queen's Own Hussars and soon found himself fighting a desperate and ill-fated rear-guard action in the mountains of Northern Greece. One of the few in his Regiment to be evacuated, Crichton went on to see combat in the battles of Alam Halfa and El Alamein. But he also found time to play polo and fall in love. Crichton was later deployed to Yugoslavia where he was attached to Tito's partisans, a guerilla resistance movement that fought their way North, island by island, hurrying the Germans' withdrawal. After four and a half years' absence, he returned to London on VE Day, 1945, grateful to be alive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526755117
• Artikelnr.: 60542982

Autorenporträt

Born in 1914, Peter Crichton was brought up by his maternal grandfather in Essex. His education at Bradfield was cut short due to a shortage of money. After a period in German and Denmark learning to farm he became a sub-editor for The Evening Standard. A countryman at heart, urban life did not suit him. On the outbreak of war, he joined the Northamptonshire Yeomanry but frustrated by home service he transferred to the 4th Hussars. His service in North Africa, Northern Greece, the Western Desert and with the Partisans in the Balkans is the subject of this memoir. Post war he married the daughter of the Swedish Minister to Egypt and worked in Cairo until the 1952 Revolution. They returned with their son, Robert to England, settling in the Cotswolds. He enjoyed rural pursuits and worked for the Automobile Association. He died in 1977.