By Tank into Normandy: A Memoir of the Campaign in North-West Europe from D-Day to VE Day :: Stuart Hills soon to be presented for sale on the terrific BookLovers of Bath web site!
London: Cassell & Co., 2002, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Includes: Plans of battle; Black & white photographs; Maps;
From the cover: 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 d…
Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight but with a hint of age-toning to the margins.
Grey boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 255 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9½” x 6¼”.
Of course, if you don’t like this one, may I entice you with something lovely from my Military Army catalogue?
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