Table of Contents
Note on the Text ix
List of Maps and Aerial Photographs xi
Note on Maps and Aerial Photographs xiii
Maps and Aerial Photographs xiv
Principal Personalities lxii
Prologue 1
Part I Summer - Normandy
1 Passage 13
2 Rough Landings 27
3 Off the Beaches 38
4 Point 103 52
5 Felled in the Field 67
6 Tragedy at Tilly 74
7 A Brief Discourse on How the Regiment Worked 83
8 Into the Woods 99
9 On the Hoof 113
10 Fontenay 126
11 Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright 138
12 Faces Gone, Faces New 152
13 Exhaustion 165
14 Back into Action 178
15 Bloody Ridge 189
16 Letters Home 202
17 The Noireau 212
Part II Autumn - Belgium and the Netherlands
18 The Chase 227
19 Talking with the Enemy 240
20 Surrounded 250
21 Gheel and Garden 265
22 Luck 277
Part III Winter
23 Revolving Doors 295
24 Geilenkirchen 309
25 Mud 322
26 The Red Badge of Courage 333
27 Snow and Ice 345
28 Cleve 358
Part IV Spring - Germany
29 The Rhineland 375
30 Crossing the Rhine 389
31 Pursuit 402
32 Wars End 415
Postscript 427
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations 435
Appendix 1 Make-up of an Armoured Regiment 437
Appendix 2 Commanders within the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, D-Day to VE-Day 441
Appendix 3 Medals Won by the Men of the Sherwood Rangers, D-Day to VE-Day 443
Appendix 4 The Tanks: The Sherman and the Firefly 449
Appendix 5 Letter from Major John Semken to Mr Heenan 460
Notes 463
Selected Sources 483
Acknowledgements 495
Picture Acknowledgements 501
Index 507