Commissioned out of Sandhurst in 1943, nineteen-year-old Bill
Bellamy joined the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars. Following the
Normandy landings in June 1944, he was involved in the great tank
battles around the town of Caen, the battle of Mont Pincon, and
then the Allied breakout into Belgium. There followed the advance
into Holland and onwards to the River Maas. In October 1944, during
this phase of the fighting, he was awarded an immediate Military
Cross for bravery during the battle to secure the Dutch village of
Doornhoek. In the spring of 1945, the 8th Hussars thrust into
Germany and on towards Hamburg, eventually winding up at the very
heart of Hitler's Reich, Berlin.
Bill kept diaries and notes of his experiences, and shortly
after the war he used them to write up a series of articles
recounting his part as a junior officer in the hard-fought battles
to free Europe from the Nazis.
His accounts of tank fighting in the leafy Normandy bocage at
the height of summer, or in the iron-hard fields of Holland in
winter, are graphic and compelling. This personal account of a
British tank commander in the battles for Normandy and the Low
Countries is illustrated with archive and personal photographs,
some never previously published.
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