Leakey's Luck

Major-General Rea Leakey was one of the Royal Tank Regiment's greatest heroes of the Second World War. His autobiography is unique as it is based on the diary which he kept at the time, something which was strictly forbidden. It provides us with a graphic eyewitness account of a man who was actually there at the 'sharp end' and covers the whole period of his army service, from joining his first regiment up until the end of the Second World War. His story is truly remarkable, from the time he spent as a young tank squadron commander fighting Afrika Korps in the desert, and later as a Churchill tank battalion commander in Normandy and the fight through to the Rhine.