The story of the armoured units who landed in Normandy to spearhead the Allied advance into Nazi-occupied Europe and break open the Third Reich’s defences – in the face of minefields, camouflaged anti-tank guns and crack SS Panzer corps equipped with some of the most fearsome armour of the war. But the tankers of the famous Desert Rats were veterans of the campaign against Rommel and his Afrika Korps in North Africa, and then of the conquest of Italy.