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By Tank into Normandy - Couverture souple

Hills, Stuart

 
9780304366408: By Tank into Normandy
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0304366404 ISBN 13 : 9780304366408
Editeur : W&N, 2005

Synopsis

'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 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
W&N
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0304366404
ISBN 13 
9780304366408
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Hachette Ireland
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