I am an collector of self published books and manuscripts by veterans about their wartime career. On this page you find the books that I have collected over the years and where they can be bought when available.

If you know of any other self published books/manuscripts, please contact me.
 

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The Dispatch Rider Harry Watts	The Scarlet Dawn Major R.M. Hickey	The Flying Footsloggers Norm Fuller		The Battle for Tripsrath Louis M. Scully	A British Soldier Remembers Ronald A. Tee
Fragments of Battle Rex Fellows	The Holland Patch Simon Haines	The Tale of Two Bridges Peter Pine-Coffin		Not So Bloody Quiet On The Western Front Dennis Hooper
			DISPATCH RIDER By HARRY WATTS This book can be obtained from Martin Veldman in The Netherlands. Email mv_877@hotmail.com
THE SCARLET DAWN By Rev. R. Myles Hickey These are the memories of Reverend R. Myles Hickey, who was a Roman Catholic chaplain with the Canadian North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment. The book covers his experiences from the time that the clouds gathered over Europe, to the outbreak of war and the whole conflict. Seen from his perspective of a non-combatant but very close to the action. He landed with the troops on D-Day. The book also holds rolls of honor for those killed and wounded while in service with the North Shore Regiment. This book was first published in 1949 and republished in 1980. It is no longer available.
			THE FLYING FOOTSLOGGERS By Norm Fuller The unofficial history of Australia's World War paratroopers.   This book is no longer available.
THE BATTLE FOR TRIPSRATH By Louis M. Scully 1st Battalion Worcester Regiment This book describes in detail the battle for the German town of Tripsrath, just over the Dutch/German border in November 1944 during Operation Clipper. A well written study of a small battle in the Battle for the Rhineland. This book can be obtained from the Author Mr. Louis M. Scully 17 Fenwick Close Goldsworth Park Woking Surrey GU21 3BY England Email Louis@scully.me.uk
			A BRITISH SOLDIER REMEMBERS By Ronald A. Tee and Ken C. Dowsett Ronald Tee's reminiscences of World War Two when he was with the 56th Recce Regiment in North Africa, Italy and Austria. from his time as a teenager, the war, and his postwar years.
FRAGMENTS OF BATTLE By REX FELLOWS This book can be obtained from Mr. Louis M. Scully 17 Fenwick Close Goldsworth Park Woking Surrey GU21 3BY England Email Louis@scully.me.uk
			THE HOLLAND PATCH By Simon Haines The 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment at Arnhem, 17-26 September 1944.   This book is no longer available through the author.
THE TALE OF TWO BRIDGES By PETER PINE-Coffin (Adapted by Barbara Maddox) Based on the diary of Lt. Col. R.G. Pine-Coffin, DSO, MC, 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion in Normandy. This book is based on the diary by the Battalion commander, Lt. Col. Pine-Coffin. Additional research and interviews with surviving members have been conducted to give this book an very personal and insightful description of the battle of the 7th Bn on D-Day. It was the Battalion's task to take over control of the two bridges over the Orne and Caen Canal that had been taken by the troops of Major Howard and to hold it until the seaborne forces came to relieve them.
			Not So Bloody Quiet On The Western Front by Dennis Hooper This is the story of Dennis Hooper as a soldier in the 2nd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment. From training to his first taste of war in Holland, then Belgium, Germany to the end of war. This is an brutally, bluntly and painfully honest, experience of the life of a frontline soldier. This books conveys like few others the experiences and world of the men fighting the war in the lower echelons of the military hierarchy. His world is not that of overviews or strategy. His world is that what is directly around him; his comrades with whom he fights this war. This book is about their experiences. The loss of friends, merciless mortar and artillery barrages, taking one town after another, dealing with the local civilians, the anxieties, heroism and stupidities. While generals set out the strategies, he is staring the beast for war in his face and tries to make it through. He describes several aspects you rarely read about elsewhere. I have rarely read such an gripping and thoroughly personal account of the war. Reading a book will never make you feel like what the war was like, but Mr. Hooper certainly succeeds in making you think about what it is like for a long time. A gifted writer, who manages to take you into the frontlines with him in down to earth language and dialogues that strike me a the most authentic I have read. This book was published in 2003. 155 pages, soft cover. To order the book, please contact Mr. Martyn Hooper