Ken Tout landed on the D-Day beaches as a Sherman tank gunner and later, after heavy casualties, commanded a captain’s tank whilst only a lance-corporal. After the war he worked for many years with international charities and, apart from his many war books, is known for early research and books on ageing in developing countries. In 1994 he was awarded the OBE for his work with the elderly and also received a United Nations citation. He is Vice-President of his regimental association and has lectured to junior soldiers and their
trainers during WW2 battlefield tours. His other books include The Bloody Battle for Tilly, A Fine Night for Tanks and In the Shadow of Arnhem.
The fierce battle to capture the French village of Tilly-la-Campagne was an exceptionally bloody episode in the story of the allied breakout from Normandy in the summer of 1944. Small Allied infantry units faced an almost impossible mission, hampered by the proximity of the elite...
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