ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS/WW1+WW2 TANK CORPS/D.MASTERS/1943

The Immortal Deeds of the Royal Armoured Corps

By David Masters

Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode – 1943 – 1st.

How those early tanks of the Tank Corps shocked and surprised the Germans and broke the hitherto invincible Hindenburg Line at Cambrai on November 20, 1917, is a glowing page of British history; less well known except to their kith and kin is how those gallant young tank crews trained in secret in England and went to France to endure a terrible ordeal by fire in which so many perished and others suffered such mental strain that they were affected for the rest of their lives. One of them was a connection of the author who became a captain at the age of twenty.

They won a triumph and gladly paid the cost. Those tanks were one more proof of the engineering genius of the British race; their heroic crews were the forebears of the boys in the black berets who man the tanks today….

CONTENTS:

Foreword

The first tank clash

The Calais epic

Matilda meets Marshall Graziani

The man who list his temper

Victory at Beda Fomm

Retreat and escape

Glorious Greece

Gallant nurses and escaping men

Invasion of Crete

The key to Keren

The last stand

Siege of Tobruk

Triumph and Tragedy Brigadier Jock Campbell, V.C.D.S.O.,M.C.,

The road to Mandalay

The tanks at Dieppe

Crusaders

The left hook at Mareth

Index.

This 200 page book is in good condition. The boards are a little discoloured but the book is firmly bound. There are 8 pages of b/w photographs.

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