Dunkirk, D-Day, Kohima and The Death Railway : The Royal Norfolk Regiment in the Second World War

The Royal Norfolk Regiment had a fighting record second to none. Five�members of the Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross, the greatest number�to any Line Infantry Regiment during the Second World War. 1st Battalion landed on Sword Beach on D-Day and fought with distinction�through France, Holland and Germany2nd Battalion was the first complete infantry battalion of the British�Expeditionary Force to land in France in 1939. Members of this battalion�earned the first gallantry decorations of the war. Tragically, 97 men of this�battalion were massacred at Le Paradis during the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940.�The battalion was rebuilt and fought in Burma and the hellish Battle of Kohima. 4th, 5th and 6th Battalions fought doggedly at Singapore but after the surrender�of the island in 1942, spent the rest of the war as Japanese Prisoners of War on the�infamous 'Death Railway' and forced labour camps. 7th Battalion fought in France in 1940. Only fifty men made it back, but the�battalion was rebuilt and returned again to fight in Normandy in 1944. Drawing on the diaries, memoirs and memories of those who were there, this�book is a fitting tribute to the brave men of The Royal Norfolk Regiment.