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By Tank Into Normandy (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
Stuart Hills
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Description for By Tank Into Normandy (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
Paperback. 'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard Holmes Num Pages: 256 pages, 24, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BG; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWD; JWMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard Holmes
Stuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
W&N
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780304366408
SKU
V9780304366408
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Stuart Hills
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.
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