Brothers in arms : one legendary tank regiment's bloody war from D-Day to VE Day
Holland, James, 1970-2022
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Total copies: 3
From the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43 comes the untold story of the Sherwood Rangers. It took a certain type of courage to serve in a tank in World War Two. Encased in steel, surrounded by highly explosive shells, a big and slow-moving target, every crew member was utterly vulnerable to enemy attack from all sides. Living - and dying - in a tank was a brutal way to fight a war. The Sherwood Rangers were one of the great tank regiments. They had learned their trade the hard way, under the burning sun of North Africa, on the battlefields of El Alamein and Alam el Halfa. By the time they landed on Gold Beach on D-Day, they were toughened by experience and ready for combat.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2022.
Collation:
lxix, 632 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Bantam Press, 2021.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780552177917 (pbk)0552177911 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5412 HOL940.5412
LC class:
D759.528
Language:
English
Related title:
Brothers in Arms [electronic resource] : One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day
Subject:
Great Britain. Army. Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry -- HistoryWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Great BritainWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Europe -- Tank warfareWorld war, 1939-1945 -- Africa, North -- Tank warfareWarfare and DefenceWarfare and DefenceBiography: historical, political & militaryGeneral & world historyEuropean historyThe HolocaustMilitary history
BRN:
389085