'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 & evocatively written Tank! surely merits a place on the bookshelf of Second World War classics' British Army Review Normandy 1944 Like most of his comrades Ken Tout was just 20 years old Not until many years later did he feel able to gather their memoirs in three Hale books Tank! Tanks Advance! & To Hell with Tanks! Now these adventures are condensed into this one continuous narrative Follow the ordinary young lads of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry through the massive enemy defences on Bourguebus Ridge to the snows of the Ardennes to the night crossing of the River Rhine & finally to Grote Kerk I where they celebrated with liberated Dutch citizens They were not professional soldiers but young conscripts willing to 'do their bit' knowing that their Shermans were outgunned by the enemy's much heavier Tiger & 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 & grief