Author: Beale, Peter,
Title: TANK TRACKS - 9th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment At War 1940-45.
Description: Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1995, 1st edn., xiv, 238pp, numerous in text maps, diagrams and half tone photo ills., large format (10 x 7 inches approx.), black cloth letttered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the birth of the Regiment in 1916, brief details of actions near Amiens and the Battle for Moreuil (1918), but mainly of the rebirth in 1940, a lengthy period of training before Normandy a few days after D-Day with Churchill tanks, part of 31 Tank Brigade (later 34 Tank Brigade), action with 15th (Scottish Infantry) Div. in Operation Epsom, into Holland and assisting with enlarging the Arnhem salient, countering the Ardennes offensive, fighting through the Reichweld Forest and into Germany, very sl. cocked, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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