As If They Were My Own (Gliders Over Normandy #3)

A veteran of deployments in India and more recently France in 1940, newly promoted Company Sergeant-Major Norman Baker is faced with the biggest task of his career, and his life. Loaded into the back of a flimsy, wooden glider, he must land alongside his men, before assaulting a heavily defended but vitally important gun battery in Northern France. There's one problem for Baker though; he cares too much. Becoming a father figure for many, he cares for his charges as if they were his own, he craves to keep one particular young soldier alive, one who has chosen to go into battle completely unarmed. Haunted by his experiences of France in 1940, how will CSM Baker cope in this, the biggest battle of his life? Will he see it through? Or will his mind get the better of him?