Apprentice To Airborne: Memoirs Of A World War Two Royal Engineer

By Peter Dunstan

Beginning at Beachley Technical School near Chepstow, where the Severn River divides England from Wales, these memoirs follow the teen-aged apprentice in training to the soldier and Royal Engineer experiencing the Dunkirk evacuation, and then into action as a paratrooper on D-Day. Various records were transcribed and edited by Peter Dunstan, in particular his father's letters to home, his assorted scrapbook recollections, and a few short digital files that he left behind on a single floppy disk as he strove to master new computer technology in his final years. Up until his death in 2004, Harry Ivor Dunstan kept his army issued silk map and four pages of hurriedly hand-written notes that he carried with him in Normandy as he detailed the events firsthand. It is from this personal and direct perspective that readers will find themselves drawn into the atmosphere and events of those critical years, when Europe descended into the turmoil of war.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515146251
• ISBN13: 9781515146254
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.0"