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Product Identifiers
PublisherCassell Guides
ISBN-100304366404
ISBN-139780304366408
eBay Product ID (ePID)102971418
Product Key Features
Book TitleBy Tank Into Normandy
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / World War II, Europe / France, Military / Vehicles, Europe / Great Britain / General, Military
Publication Year2007
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorStuart Hills
Book SeriesCassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight9.5 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal940.5/42142/092
SynopsisA World War II 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. Then came the struggles through Normandy in a replacement tank and a constant round of close encounters with the enemy--which swiftly turned Hills into a master of tank warfare. A remarkable story of survival., '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., Stuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 am, Sunday 4th 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.
LC Classification NumberD811
