A Trooper’s Tale: 1942 – 1947

Read an exciting account of army life in the Second World War as seen through the eyes of an ordinary soldier, Trooper Geoffrey Prater, whose military action with the Royal Tank Regiment led him to adventure and travel in some of the most dangerous battles against the Reich. This war memoir is his story, and the story of the men at arms who shared in the action and adventure with him before being demobilized in 1947.

Prater began his military action after a summons arrived on his eighteenth birthday, calling him up for National Service. Among other potential candidates he underwent tests a month later to establish his fitness, and was eventually drafted into the Royal Tank Regiment. From there, army life became a rollercoaster ride of action and adventure and travel, as he was posted first to the front in Italy, and then to the sweltering Middle East. Before joining the army, he had been no further from home than Yarmouth.

But throughout the campaigns, his most abiding memories are of the men at arms who fought by his side, and whose influence still rings through to the present day. It is to those comrades this book is dedicated, and even a brief glance at the LOOK INSIDE feature of this Second World War memoir will tell you why.