Leakey's Luck. A Tank Commander with Nine Lives

Leakey, Rea [with George Forty]

ISBN 10: 0750917318 / ISBN 13: 9780750917315

Published by Sutton Publishing, Phoenix Mill, 1999

About this Item

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Illustrated endpapers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 158 pages.

Seller Inventory # 330898

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Leakey's Luck. A Tank Commander with Nine Lives
• Publisher: Sutton Publishing, Phoenix Mill
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750917318
• ISBN 13: 9780750917315
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st UK Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military-WW2

About this title

Synopsis

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 desert campaign and later in the battles of North West Europe. This is his autobiography which covers the period of his Army service, from joining his first regiment to the end of the Second World War.
Leakey's Luck is important because it provides 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 right as an author, and formerly director of the Tank Museum at Bovington, has edited Leakey's autobiography, setting the scene to each chapter and placing the events of the war within their strategic contexts.

About the Author

Lt-Col George Forty OBE, FMA, is the former director of the Tank Museum at Bovington in Dorset.