Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-246) and index.
Contents:
Illustrations and maps--Axknowledgements--Foreword--Author's foreward--Prelude--Childhood--Training--D-Day--Battle--Break-out--Pursuit--Gheel--Nijmegen--Siegfried line--Rhine--Finis--Afterword--Bibliography--Index.
Summary:
A World War Two tank commander gives a direct, harrowing, and exciting account of fighting at the invasion front. On June 4, 1944, 20-year old Stuart Hills, fresh from Officer Cadet Training, went to war. Two days later, his tank sunk, and he and his crew landed from a rubber dinghy with just the clothes they had on. Then came the struggles through Normandy in a replacement tank, where he engaged the enemy in a constant round of close encounters-swiftly becoming a master of tank warfare in the process. A remarkable story of survival.
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