Description
| Product ID: | 9780750945349 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Troop Leader |
| Subtitle: | A Tank Commander's Story |
| Authors: | Author: Bill Bellamy |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, European history, Second World War, Land forces and warfare, European history, Second World War, Land forces & warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Troop leader 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 bocage in the height of summer, or in the iron hard fields of Holland in winter, are graphic and compelling. |
| Imprint Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2007-03-15 |
