Armoured Guardsman
| By: | Robert Boscowan |
| Publisher: | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. |
| Print ISBN: | 9780850527483 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781783374724 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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The outbreak of World War II brought many changes to Britain's Brigade of Guards. The dress-parade units had always maintained a full combat capacity and made a relatively easy transition into a new unit, the Guards Armoured Division. The Guards landed in Normandy on D 4 and steadily fought their way across northern Europe. Robert Boscowan was a tank commander in the 1st Coldstream Guards and had four tanks shot from under him. On the fourth occasion he was badly wounded and burned, making a difficult postwar recovery. The years after the war, however, also brought both business and political success, culminating in a 23-year career in Parliament. Boscowan's account of Britain's elite at war is based on his wartime diaries.