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Troop Leader: A Tank Commander's Story

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#328274-XE15
Titel	Troop Leader: A Tank Commander's Story
Auteur	Bellamy, Bill
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Stroud : Sutton Publishing
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	0750939796
ISBN13	9780750939799
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with some b/w photographs and drawings, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Troop Leader is a unique account of one man's experience of the battle for Europe in 1944 and 1945. Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 to 1955. He served in 7th Armoured Division in the North West Europe campaign, landing in Normandy on D+3, fought throughout the Battle for Normandy and into the Low Countries as a troop leader in Cromwell tanks, and was latterly a member of the initial occupying force in Berlin in May 1945. Against the rules, Bill kept diaries and notes of his experiences. His account is fresh and open, and his descriptions of battle are vivid. He witnessed many of his contemporaries killed in action, and this life-altering experience clearly informs his narrative. The accounts of tank fighting in the leafy Normandy hedgerows i... (Lees verder)n the height of summer, or in the iron hard fields of Holland in winter, are graphic and compelling.
Pagina's	214
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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