Leakey's Luck: A Tank Commander With Nine Lives

158 pages. library sticker on spine - no other markings, private collector Major-General Rea Leakey is one of the Royal Tank Regiment's greatest heroes of the Second World War. He led a charmed life throughout the North African dese rt campaign and later in the battles of North West Europe. This is his autobiogr aphy which covers the period of his Army service, from joining his first regimen t to the end of the Second World War.Leakey's Luck is important because it p rovides us with a graphic eyewitness account by one who was there at the 'sharp end' - as a young tank squadron commander fighting Rommel's Afrika Korps in the desert, and later in North West Europe.George Forty, well known in his own r ight as an author, and formerly director of the Tank Museum at Bovington, has ed ited Leakey's autobiography, setting the scene to each chapter and placing the e vents of the war within their strategic contexts.