Book description
Willy Field was born Willy Hirschfeld in Bonn, Germany. The morning
after Kristallnacht on 10 November 1938 he was arrested by the Gestapo
and transported to Dachau concentration camp. This fascinating new
book details the horrendous experiences of a German Jew in the camp,
and how he survived to come to England as a refugee. Shipped to
Australia and interned as an enemy alien, Willy nevertheless returned
to Britain as one of the 10,000 volunteers for the British Forces, and
found himself on active service as a tank driver in the Royal Armoured
Corps. Three days after D-Day, Willy landed in France and saw
front-line fighting through France, Belgium and the Netherlands. He
was the only survivor when his tank received a direct hit, but, after
recovery, he was given another tank and crossed the border into
Germany with the allied troops. Having been involved in the liberation
of Hamburg, Willy drove his tank past Winston Churchill in the Victory
Parade in Berlin in July 1945.
