Lion Rampant: The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland

Lion Rampant is Robert Woollcombe's graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during the desperate battle for Normandy and the Allied advance into Germany. Vividly evoking the confusion, horror, and comradeship of war—from the killing fields of Normandy bocage, through house-to-house fighting in shattered Flemish towns, to the final Rhine crossing—Lion Rampant is a powerful, authentic, and moving story, telling with extraordin...