- Aldershot, NS
- 902 678 7930 x2121
- wnsr@wnsr.ca
This is a 200 page book of the wartime recollections of the West Novas in England, Scotland, Sicily, Italy, the Hitler Line, The Gothic Line, Ortona in winter, and the Foglia River Crossing. Major Bill Thexton, a wartime company commander, uses tremendous powers of recall to tell how ours Regiment played an important role in the successful Italian Campaign that helped to win the Second World War. The book contains three maps and 60 photographs to help you understand the war as seen from the eyes of a man who was there and remembered it well.
The foreword was written by Col Ian Hope, MSC, MSM, CD, formerly of the West Novas.