TANK ACTION: AN ARMOURED TROOP COMMANDER'S WAR 1944-45

Author: David Render and Stuart Tootal

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Year published: 2016

Pagination: 318pp, 22 b/w photos, 2 maps

Condition: fair in card cover

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In 1944, David Render was a 19-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst when he was sent to France. Joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry five days after the D-Day landings, the combat-hardened men he was sent to command did not expect him to last long. However, in the following weeks of ferocious fighting in which more than 90 per cent of his fellow tank commanders became casualties, his ability to emerge unscathed from countless combat engagements earned him the nickname of the 'Inevitable Mr Render'.