By Tank into Normandy — Stuart Hills

By Tank into Normandy

Stuart Hills | Foreword by Lord Deedes | Paperback

Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History — Best Military Memoir of 2003

"One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign" — Richard Holmes

Second Lieutenant Stuart Hills of the Nottinghamshire Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry embarked his Sherman DD tank onto an LCT on the afternoon of Sunday 4 June 1944. A tank commander at only 20, unblooded and fresh from Sandhurst, his was a sudden transition from the order and security of Tonbridge to real war.

From his first encounter with two tanks 'brewed up' on Gold Beach, their crews dead inside, and the ensuing hard-fought struggles through the Normandy bocage, he shares his experience of tank warfare, terror and triumph in equal measure, with vivid reality. Stuart Hills was awarded the Military Cross for his war; read his book and you will understand it was the least he deserved.

"This is a superb, awe-inspiring but intimate account of armoured warfare at its most intense. By Tank into Normandy should be obligatory reading at Sandhurst." — British Army Review

Condition: Good — some shelf wear, pages clean.