TROOP LEADER: A Tank Commander’s Story :: World War II :: Time Periods

The story of a young public schoolboy’s baptism of fire after he is commissioned as a tank officer and thrown into the Normandy campaign. Bill Bellamy saw the war through to Berlin and thoroughnly deserved the MC he won.

Straight out of public school and Sandhnurst, the author of this rivetting memoir, Bill Bellamy, was only 19 when he was commissioned into the 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars and thrown into the Normandy campaign. Commanding a squadron of Cromwells, he took part in the tank battles around Caen, Operation Goodwood, Mount Pincon and the breakout into Belgium. In the winter of 1944/45 he was in the dogged fighting through Holland to the RIver Maas, winning an MC for bravery in the battle to secure the village of Doornhoek. He ended the war in Berlin, at the very heart of Hitler’s defeated Reich. This memoir, based on diaries and notes Bill made at the time, records what military historian Richard HOlmes, in an admiring foreword, calls ‘the rough realities of war’ as well as its lighter side.

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Product Code:	10439
Author:	Bill Bellamy, Foreword Richard Holmes
Format:	214pp, b/w photographs, hb. Published Price £19.99
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