Stuart Hills

Stuart Hills served as a tank commander during the Second World War, and his memoir By Tank into Normandy provides one of the most vivid and authentic firsthand accounts of armoured warfare during the D-Day landings and the subsequent campaign across northwest Europe. Hills landed on Gold Beach on 6 June 1944 as a young officer in the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry and fought his way through Normandy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and into Germany, experiencing some of the most intense armoured combat of the entire war. His memoir is remarkable for its clarity, its honesty about the fear and confusion of battle, and its vivid descriptions of what it was actually like to fight from inside a tank during the most dramatic military campaign of the twentieth century. Hills writes with the directness and modesty typical of the best veteran memoirs, conveying the reality of combat without glorification while acknowledging the courage and sacrifice of the men who served alongside him. His account preserves an invaluable record of the tank crews' experience that grows more precious as the generation of Second World War veterans passes. By Tank into Normandy is available as an audiobook, offering listeners a gripping, authentic account of armoured warfare from one of the men who liberated Europe.