By Tank into Normandy

Hills, Stuart; Deedes, Lord

ISBN 10: 0304366404 / ISBN 13: 9780304366408

Verlag: UNKNO, 2007

[Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Stuart Hills Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Stuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 am, Sunday 4th June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public school background and Officer Cadet training. He was going to war. Two days later, his tank sunk, he and his crew landed from a rubber dinghy with just the clothes they stood in. After that, the struggles through the Normandy bocage in a replacement tank (of the non-swimming variety), engaging the enemy in a constant round of close encounters, led to a swift mastering of the art of tank warfare and remarkable survival in the midst of carnage and destruction. His story of that journey through hell to victory makes for compulsive reading. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780304366408-SECONDHAND

Inhaltsangabe:

'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard Holmes

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Stuart Hills was 20 years old when he joined a tank regiment preparing to spearhead the D-Day landings. His parents and sister were in Hong Kong, prisoners of the Japanese, their fate unknown. One of the few surviving officers in the regiment at the end of the war, he went on to a successful business career.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: By Tank into Normandy
Verlag: UNKNO
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Einband: Paperback
Art des Buches: Paperback