Title: Tank!
First published: 1985
Description: This short book is a novelette-sized experiential treatment. It is raw, full of the period banter between the men of a tank battalion in Normandy. The characters crass humour is exquisitely raw.

Much of the book is claustrophobic as it describes life in a Sherman tank during the height of the Normandy Campaign. It was a meat grinder where casualties were anywhere from 60 - 70%, with Allied armies often fighting top-notch German Armoured divisions.

But the democratic armies won - and is partially explained why in "Tank." We were practical if fatalistic, which made for our high morale, one of our best assets.
Subjects: Biography, British Personal narratives, Campaigns, Great Britain, Great Britain. Army, Personal narratives, British, Soldiers, Tank warfare, World War, 1939-1945, Great britain, history, military, Military campaigns, Great britain, army, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, france, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, british, Great britain, biography, English Personal narratives
Places: France, Great Britain
People: Ken Tout (1924-)