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by Stuart Hills (Author) "It was 6.45 a.m. on Sunday June 4 1944 in a wood near Calshot, on the western shore of Southampton Water, and the Brigadier was..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Phoenix; New edition edition (11 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0304366404
  • ISBN-13: 978-0304366408
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 44,984 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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.


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Stuart Hills was 20 years old when he joined a tank regiment preparing to spearhead the D-Day landings. His parents and sister were in Hong Kong, prisoners of the Japanese, their fate unknown. One of the few surviving officers in the regiment at the end of the war, he went on to a successful business career.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, 27 Jul 2003
This review is from: By Tank into Normandy (Hardcover)
Written with clarity and honesty, a young tank troop leader`s description of the Normandy invasion and the exhausting and deadly battles of attrition that followed, up to the end of the war in May 1945. Stuart Hills pulls no punches, not least in addressing the question of courage and fear in an objective way which earns nothing but respect and admiration from the reader.

His regiment, the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, suffered 100% killed in it`s front line strength and was independently reported to have seen more fighting between 1940 and 1945 than any other armoured battalion. This is not the stuff of "Biggles", but it is a well written record of the utter nastiness of war, and the extraordinary comradeship and humanity which allowed soldiers in these circumstances to keep going

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Tank Commander's View of the Campaign, 28 Feb 2006
By Mr. Stephen P. Lightfoot "slight99" (Staffs UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a interesting read for anyone who has any knowledge of the Western Europe campaign 1944/45. Hills writes from his own persepective, giving it an authentic feel, and a good insight into the life of a World War 2 subaltern in an armoured regiment. The book leaves out much of the grand strategy, which is a good thing and it is best to look elsewhere for that kind of detail.
The reader gets a strong sense of Lt Hills personality and background from the book, and some might see the initial chapters regarding his background and schooling as irrelevant, although they do inform the reader of the authors persective.

Hills appears to keenly feel the loss of the many casualties his Regiment suffered during the campaign, especially those of his close personal friends. However, you do get the impression of the distiction between the officer class and the other ranks. At one point, Hills describes how, when taking cover from shell fire he encounters and old friend from home, and is suprised that the man isn't an officer as "he owns a Bentley in England".

I very much enjoyed this book, and couldn't put it down after a while. Hills' style is engaging and human, and the man himself is clearly a hero.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars D Day to Germany from a soldier's point of view, 5 Mar 2006
By Mr. Stephen Pell "stevepell" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This is not a book about grand strategy, rather it is one tank commander telling his story of the war. It talks about the things that the strategy books gloss over and fills in some of the details of how the war was fought. It tells the story of just some of the young men whose plain portland stone memorials now dot the landscape of France and brings their brave exploits back to life. It also answers questions such as who recovered bodies from knocked out tanks and how the armoured regiments maintained their supplies of fuel, food and ammunition. This book is well written and holds the readers interest far more than some of the more sanitised regimental histories. A worthwhile read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A very good personnel account
I bought this quite some time ago and I do think it is a very good account of this mans actions during the Northwest Europe campaign of the Second World War. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Carl

5.0 out of 5 stars What an astonishing read
Ok the first couple of chapters about school etc are DULL. For a "better" read should have been edited heavily but it is what it is and have to accept it as such: a personal... Read more
Published 13 months ago by The Questionable Shredder

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but could be a heck of a lot better!
There is too much emphasis of the author's schooling / cricketing exploits which took up valuable space in this book which could have been used much more appropriately in further... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars A curate's egg
This book was written by a young British officer in a tank regiment who experiences battle for the first time on D-Day and serves through to the end of the war. Read more
Published on 30 Mar 2007 by Andrew Walker

2.0 out of 5 stars play up tonbridgians!
A Really disappointing book. Norton writes with little passion about the conflict yet devotes geat space to School (the old Tonbridgians), references to his background and senior... Read more
Published on 4 May 2005 by A. Lynch

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