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Stanley’s War by Bob Hooper

In his comprehensive war diary Stanley Hooper, a junior officer from a Dorset Rectory, describes his life in WW1. This book covers Stanley’s time attached to the 1st Battalion Dorsetshire regiment from the the carnage of the battle of the Somme to becoming a reconnaissance officer for the Tank Corps in the battles of Passchendaele and Cambrai he repeatedly survived near misses. As commander of a section of three tanks at Amiens working with the Australian 2nd Division, he was involved in the 1918 engagement that changed the whole course of the war.

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