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Like most of his comrades, Ken Tout was just 20 years old in Normandy 1944. Not until the 1980s 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 very ordinary young lads of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry through the massive enemy defences on Bourguebus Ridge, to the snows of the Ardennes, the night crossing of the River Rhine, when Sherman tanks were traded in for amphibious Buffaloes, and final roll-call in Zwolle's Grote Kerkl, where they celebrated with liberated Dutch citizens. The author graphically describes the total experience - the heat, noise and smells - inside the Sherman tank, nicknamed by their enemy the 'Tommy Cooker'. Hit in the engine the Sherman exploded within seconds, instantly cremating any crew members unable to escape. These were not professional soldiers but young conscripted lads 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. Ken Tout's books attracted plaudits such as 'masterpiece', 'a very special book', 'one of the best books ever written on the subject' and was described as a Second World War classic, and are now being read by the grandchild generation of those young tank crews of 1944-5.
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... a minor classic in battle-picture painting. It has an authenticity about it which could only come from deep personal experience, translated by a lucid pen. --The Times
Movingly and evocatively written. Tank! surely merits a place on the bookshelf of Second World War classics. --British Army Review
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Movingly and evocatively written. Tank! surely merits a place on the bookshelf of Second World War classics. --British Army Review
After theological college Ken Tout worked for many years overseas with voluntary organizations, including Oxfam, HelpAge International and the Salvation Army, and latterly as a consultant to the United Nations Unit on ageing. He has a PhD in gerontology and in 1994 was awarded the OBE for services to the elderly mainly in developing countries. He lives with his wife Jai in Essex.
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- PublisherRobert Hale Ltd
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0709081480
- ISBN 13 9780709081487
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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