A Soldier’s Story - Neville “Timber” Wood’s Story From Dunkirk To D Day - Mike Wood
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‘This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.’
Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9
‘The amazing account of a young man, Neville ‘Timber’ Wood, who, despite fighting in many of the major engagements of the Second World War, including Dunkirk, El Alamein and D-Day, survived to become a much-loved husband and father . . . brilliantly written . . . I highly recommend it’
Eleanor Tomlinson
The son of a Hull butcher, Neville ‘Timber’ Wood volunteered in 1939, at the age of eighteen, to join the British Army’s Tyne-Tees 50th Northumbrian Division. Timber was in many ways an entirely unremarkable soldier - he won no medals for gallantry, though he exhibited conspicuous bravery day after day, for years, and he rose no higher through the ranks than Lance Corporal. Nonetheless, he had an extraordinary war. As a driver for the Royal Army Service Corps, Timber’s job was to get ammunition and high explosives to the front line. It was a job with a high casualty rate, sometimes higher than front-line troops.
The 50th Division was the principal fighting division of the British Army in the Second World War. Four men of the 50th were awarded Victoria Crosses, more than any other division. It was last off the beach at Dunkirk and the first back on it on D-Day; the division was at the heart of El Alamein and the major actions which followed; it took part in the invasion of Sicily and fought all the way from Normandy to Germany, where Timber saw first-hand the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Timber’s story is pretty much the British war experience from the point of view of an ordinary soldier. He was even captured, saw Rommel and escaped. This book, written by his son Mike, is based on Neville’s extensive wartime diaries and original documents he retained from the war as well as on long conversations between the two of them when Mike transcribed the diaries as a gift for his father in 2006. Timber died in 2015.,
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
February 2nd, 2022
MANY THANKS FOR THIS
If you have any more WW2 then please keep em coming!
Cheers again
February 4th, 2022
ditto superclive commet.
Also, really appreciate that it’s in mp3 format. Don’t have to mess around converting file in order to play on mp3 player.
Cheers.
February 4th, 2022
Anyone know of a good audio book that discusses WW2 strategies that, if used, might have resulted in quicker victory, or fewer deaths for the Allies. Alternatively, strategies that the Axis might have used that might have resulted a victory for them.
Not interested in Turtledove fictional alterate reality. Interested in speculation/hypothetical that is plausible.
Thanks.
February 20th, 2022
Responding to Acanthrohu, I own it on Audible but the book “If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II” is the best book in terms of “Pure” good alternative history scenarios that aren’t wildly implausible. It does a good job in one chapter talking about how the Allies could have invaded France in early 1943 and most likely have held it since the Germans hadn’t started construction of defenses at all by then and around that time pretty much all of the German Army was in either Russia or Italy, so an invasion into France would have caught them completely off-guard.
May 29th, 2022
@TreatEaston
Any chance of uploading it? I can’t find it here.
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