Research Catalog

Title

Twins in tanks : East End brothers-in-arms, 1943-1945 / by Stephen W. Dyson.

Author

Dyson, Stephen W., 1915-

Publication

London : Leo Cooper [in association with the] Imperial War Museum, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Imperial War Museum (Great Britain).

Description

207 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., 1 map, ports.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Steve Dyson and his twin brother Tom served in the same troop in a tank regiment which in ten harrowing months fought its way from the Normandy beachhead into the heart of Germany, encountering en route some of the stiffest opposition faced by any Allied units in the last winter of the war. Steve's account of his experiences, based on the diary which, against the rules, he kept at the time, is remarkable both for its honesty and its, often unconscious, humour"--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Tank twins

Subject

• Dyson, Stephen W., 1915-
• Dyson, Tom, 1915-1987
• Great Britain. Army > Biography
• Tank crews > Great Britain > Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, British
• World War, 1939-1945 > Tank warfare
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Western Front
• Soldiers > Great Britain > Biography
• Tank units (Military forces)
• Great Britain

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The channel crossing -- Preparing for battle -- Waiting for the second front -- D-Day at last -- The Normandy beaches -- The battles for Hill 112 -- The battle of the River Orne -- Breakout in Normandy -- The Arnhem Corridor -- Fighting with Clarkeforce -- Through the Dutch defences -- The Battle of the Bulge -- The Battle of the Reichswald -- Up against the Siegfried Line -- After the battle -- Across the Rhine -- Home on leave -- Counting the cost -- With the British Army of Occupation in Germany -- A Christmas to remember.

ISBN

0850522749 :

LCCN

gb^95017584^

OCLC

47136219

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library