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By tank into Normandy : a memoir of the campaign in North-West Europe from D-Day to VE Day / Stuart Hills

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Type de médiation
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Titre(s)
  • By tank into Normandy : a memoir of the campaign in North-West Europe from D-Day to VE Day / Stuart Hills
Auteur(s)
Editeur, producteur
  • London : Cassell, 2003
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (255 p.-[16] p. de pl.) : ill., cartes ; 20 cm
Collection
  • Cassel military paperbacks
ISBN
  • 0-304-36640-4
  • 978-0-304-36640-8
Appartient à la collection
  • Cassell military paperbacks
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 940.542 14
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. 245-246. Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • "Second Lieutenant Stuart Hills of the Nottinghamshire Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry embarked his Sherman DD tank on to a Landing Craft Tanks on the afternoon of Sunday 4 June 1944. A tank commander at only 20, unblooded, fresh from public school, army training and then Sandhurst, his was a sudden transition from the order and security of Tonbridge, cricket, boxing and rugby to a real war. When he landed on Gold beach - a day late, and from a rubber dinghy, his tank having sunk between LCT and shore the day before - he was faced by two tanks 'brewed up' on the beach, their crews dead inside. But he was not to be deterred; he was young, fit and ready for anything." "This is his account of tank warfare, spearheading an invasion into fiercely held enemy territory, where every gain usually came at terrible cost."-- 4ème de couverture
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