Normandy 1944. Like most of his comrades Ken Tout was just 20 years old. Not
until many years later did he feel able to gather their memoirs in three Hale
books, "Tank!", "Tanks, Advance!" and "To Hell with Tanks!". Now these adventures are condensed into this one
continuous narrative. Follow the ordinary young lads of the Northamptonshire
Yeomanry through the massive enemy defences on Bourguebus Ridge, to the snows of
the Ardennes, to the night crossing of the River Rhine, and finally to Grote
KerkI, where they celebrated with liberated Dutch citizens. They were not
professional soldiers but young conscripts willing to 'do their bit', knowing
that their Shermans were outgunned by the enemy's much heavier Tiger and Panther
tanks. "By Tank: D Day
to VE Days" vividly recalls, in one complete volume, the whole experience of
battle with utter authenticity: the fear, confusion, boredom, excitement and
grief.
