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Alternately darkly humorous and harrowing, this is a great read from the start. Rifleman Gregg shares his memories of military service in India under the Raj, Palestine during the Mandate, fighting the Afrika Korps in the Western Desert, suffering defeat at Arnhem, and witnessing hell itself in Dresden. Not content with civvy street, he then found himself embroiled in a postwar life of espionage that puts John Le Carre's tales to shame.
Rifleman: A Front-Line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Hugely watchable entertainment. Frank Sinatra was never a great actor but this is probably his finest performance as the naive American up against a gritty Trevor Howard, a snivelling fascist played by Adolfo Celi, and the Teutonic Wolfgang Priess. I watching it for probably sixth time. With it's stirring martial score, Roman scenery and steam trains it's a blast from the past.
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Started watching it but gave up when the kidult special agents, being a sergeant and a major, tried telling a general what to do. Just rubbish.
