Bill Close

Tank Commander

From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany: The Memoirs of Bill Close

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Produktbeschreibung

A British tank commanders classic eyewitness account of the Second World War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781526766694
• ISBN-10: 1526766698
• Artikelnr.: 62388150

Autorenporträt

Major Bill Close joined the Royal Tank Regiment as a trooper in 1933 and was posted to the 3rd Battalion RTR in 1934 where he held every non-commissioned rank up to regimental quartermaster sergeant before being commissioned in the field in 1942. He served in France in 1940, in Greece in 1941, in North Africa in 1941-3, and in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany in 1944-5. After retiring from the army he was assistant bursar at Bryanston School and a manager at the electrical engineering firm Racal Redac. He married twice, had three sons and a daughter, and he died, aged 91, in 2006.