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One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign--Richard Holmes Stuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6:45 a.m., Sunday, June 4th, 1944. He was twenty years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background, and Officer Cadet training. He was going to war. Two days later, his tank sunk, he and his crew landed from a rubber dinghy with just the clothes they stood in. After that, the struggles through the Normandy bocage in a replacement tank (of the non-swimming variety), engaging the enemy in a constant round of close encounters, led to a swift mastering of the art of tank warfare and remarkable survival in the midst of carnage and destruction. His story of that journey through hell to victory makes for compulsive listening.

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Stuart Hills was twenty years old when he joined a tank regiment preparing to spearhead the D-Day landings. His parents and sister were in Hong Kong, prisoners of the Japanese, their fate unknown. One of the few surviving officers in the regiment at the end of the war, he went on to a successful business career. Lord Deedes was a British Conservative politician, army officer, and journalist. He was the first person in Britain to have been both a member of the Cabinet and the editor of a major daily newspaper, the Daily Telegraph. Roger Clark is a professional actor and voiceover artist who lives in New York City. He has performed in over forty-five countries.

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