The first British unit to cross into Germany, their engagements stretch from the Normandy beaches, to the bridges at Eindhoven, and the grinding crossing of the Siegfried Line and on into the Nazi heartland. They and their Sherman tanks covered thousands of miles and endured some of the fiercest fighting in Western Europe. By the time they landed on Gold Beach on D-Day, they were toughened by experience and ready for combat.įrom that moment on, the Sherwood Rangers were in the thick of the action til the war's end. 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. The Sherwood Rangers were one of the great tank regiments. Living - and dying - in a tank was a brutal way to fight a war.
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. It took a certain type of courage to serve in a tank in World War Two. The book is an assault on the senses.Painful to read but impossible to put down' Gerard de Groot, The Timesįrom the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43 comes an extraordinary account of the last year of the Second World War
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