Churchill’s Desert Rats: From Normandy to Berlin with the 7th Armoured Division  10007

  • Introduction
  1. The Old Soldiers
  2. Morale and Reputation
  3. An Armoured Division’s Role in Battle
  4. Arrival – ‘We Knew it was War’
  5. Villers-Bocage – Defeat, a Draw and Victory
  6. Bocage Fighting – ‘the Quick and the Dead’
  7. Operation Goodwood – ‘We’re in the Wrong War’
  8. Operation Spring – ‘Shell Happy Now’
  9. Operation Bluecoat – ‘Step on the Gas for Vire’
  10. Break-out – ‘Push On and Don’t Bugger About’
  11. The Great Swan – ‘Cracking Around’
  12. Belgium and the Liberation of Ghent – ‘an Incredible Welcome’
  13. Unsung Heroes
  14. Left Flanking: Operation Market Garden – September/October
  15. Operations Alan and Don – Late October – ‘der Moffe Aweg
  16. Watch on the Maas in East Brabant and Limburg
  17. January and Operation Blackcock
  18. The Lull before the Storm
  19. Crossing the Rhine – Operation Plunder
  20. The Battle for the Ibbenbüren Ridge
  21. Hot Persuit
  22. The Last Lap – Relief of Fallingbostel POW Camp
  23. The Surrender of Hamburg – ‘the Stink of Death’
  24. Final Round-up and VE Day
  25. Victory Parade in Berlin
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