Among the millions of personnel who served in the north-west European
campaign of 1944-5 were hundreds of military chaplains. Almost uniquely,
despite the fact that they often worked at or close to the front lines,
they went to war entirely unarmed.
This book contains the expertly-edited wartime journal of Revd.
Alexander Reynolds, Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
Twenty British Army chaplains died in Normandy, and many others bore the
psychological scars of their experiences for the rest of their life.
This book contains the wartime journal of one of them, Revd. Alexander
('Sandy') Reynolds, Royal Army Chaplains' Department. The book casts new
light on the human experience of the Normandy campaign, the Allied
advance towards the Reich, and postwar occupation duties in a defeated
Germany. Reynolds' journal is expertly edited by Dr. Simon Trew,
Sandhurst historian and an acknowledged authority on the Normandy
campaign.
Reynolds's journal provides vivid insights into the everyday experience
of British military chaplains in Normandy and throughout the north-west
European campaign of 1944-5. During his first week in France, Reynolds
personally helped bury around 200 British and German soldiers who died
during the D-Day assault.
A humane, honest and thoughtful witness of some of the most dramatic
events in 20th-Century history, in this book Reynolds tells the story of
the campaign in his own words.
