Orion Publishing Co By Tank Into Normandy

'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard HolmesStuart 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.