Tank brigade memoirs

[Fredd Bloggs]

Any recommendations on books about the Independent tank brigades troops. I can find ones from the Infantry and the armoured points of view, but would be interested i  the churchill drivers view.

[John D Salt]

There’s “Tank Twins” by the Dyson brothers, Bryan Perret’s old “Churchill”, and, if you can get hold of it, John Foley’s utterly magnificent “Mailed Fist” (surely long overdue for republication). Although it is fiction, I would also recommend Foley’s “Death of a Regiment”.

All the best,

John.

[MartinR]

I second the recommendation for John Foleys books. I picked up a second copy very cheaply after my first one fell to bits.

Also Tank Tracks by Peter Beale, which follows the fortunes of 9th RTR.

"Mistakes in the initial deployment cannot be rectified" - Helmuth von Moltke

[Etranger]

Sadly Gerry Chester’s NIH site is gone, but quite a bit of his narrative survives on other sites (WWII Talk IIRC http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/gerry-chester-1922-2019.76301/ ), for the Italian campaign.

[Fredd Bloggs]

Mailed Fists is….. expensive £93.00 and up.

 

Other recommendations, thank you all.

[Jemima Fawr]

There’s also ‘D-Day to Victory’ by Sgt Trevor Greenwood (C Sqn, 9 RTR, 31 Tk Bde), which is a war-diary rather than a memoir.  I also see it in UK bookshops all the time at the moment.  Very interesting for the worm’s-eye perspective of serviceability rates and personnel issues within a squadron, as well as the surprisingly high rate of German air-attacks.

My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/

[NTM]

Tank Tracks can be read online here

https://web.archive.org/web/20050209014857/http://www.9thrtr.com/TT/CONTENTS.HTM

These is a great book on 6th Guards and often on sale

6TH GUARDS TANK BRIGADE
The Story Of Guardsmen In Churchill Tanks

 

[NTM]

Link to 34th Tank Brigade history that I could not find earlier

https://web.archive.org/web/20050209011320/http://www.9thrtr.com/History%20of%2034%20Armd%20Bde.htm

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