Airborne Armour: Tetrarch, Locust, Hamilcar and the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment 1938-50

Despite all the works on airborne forces published since 1945, the full story of Britain’s ‘airborne armour’ has remained untold. This book is intended to correct that omission. The story has two main strands – the project to fly tanks onto the battlefield to support airborne forces, and the history of the unit which operated those tanks and supported 6th Airborne Division in the ground role – the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment.

The book is the result of considerable original ...