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Troop Leader
Troop Leader" is a unique account of one mans experience of the battle for Europe in 1944 and 1945. Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th Kings 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."
height of summer or in the iron hard fields of Holland in winter are graphic and compelling."
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