Leakey's Luck (eBook)

A Tank Commander with Nine Lives

Lieutenant Colonel George Forty OBE (Herausgeber)

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2022 | 3. Auflage
248 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-1-80399-133-7 (ISBN)

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Major General Rea Leakey was one of the Royal Tank Regiment's greatest heroes of the Second World War. As a young tank commander, he fought Rommel's Afrika Korps in the Western Desert of Egypt, before becoming trapped for six months in the siege of Tobruk and temporarily joining the Australian infantry as an honorary Lance Corporal. He later returned to the European theatre in 1944 and served as a Churchill tank commander in Normandy, the Rhine and Germany. Despite it being strictly forbidden, Leakey kept a diary throughout his soldiering career. Based on this valuable account, Leakey's Luck documents Leakey's wartime service in its entirety, and offers a view of the war through the eyes of a man who was there at the 'sharp end'. Many of his exploits were hair-raising, some even too fantastic to believe. Incredibly, Leakey's luck held out throughout the war, and he remained in the British Army until retirement in 1968.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.2022
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 2nd World War • Afrika Korps • A Tank Commander with Nine Lives • battle of gazala • churchill tank batallion • general leakey • goerge forty • major-general rea leakey • Military Autobiography • Normandy • operation compass • operation jupiter • royal tank regiment • siege of dunkirk • siege of tobruk • Tobruk • World War 2 • World War II • World War Two • ww2 • WWII
• ISBN-10: 1-80399-133-X / 180399133X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80399-133-7 / 9781803991337