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Bill Bellamy
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7th armoured division
8th king's royal irish hussars
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battle for normandy
berlin
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cromwell tanks
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holland
low countries
normandy d+3
north west europe campaign
second world war
tank fighting
world war 2
world war ii
world war two
ww2
wwii

Product details

  • ISBN 9780750939799
  • Weight: 480g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Feb 2005
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 to 1955. He served in 7th Armoured Division in the North West Europe campaign, landing in Normandy on D+3, fought throughout the Battle for Normandy and into the Low Countries as a troop leader in Cromwell tanks, and was latterly a member of the initial occupying force in Berlin in May 1945. Against the rules, Bill kept diaries and notes of his experiences. His account is fresh and open, and his descriptions of battle are vivid. He witnessed many of his contemporaries killed in action, and this life-altering experience clearly informs his narrative. The accounts of tank fighting in the leafy Normandy bocage in the height of summer, or in the iron hard fields of Holland in winter, are graphic and compelling.
About Bill Bellamy
Bill Bellamy was a regular officer with the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 until 1955, when he was forced to take early retirement on health grounds. He then purued a successful career in industry and was Managing Director of a number of companies. Now retired, he remains busy in a wide range of different activities. He lives in Northamptonshire and this is his first book.

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