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The Iron Stallions
First published 1982
The final tale of a fighting family, in the greatest conflict of all time... In the 1920s, Josh Goff runs away from school and enlists under another name in the ranks of what to his family was always simply known as The Regiment. Soon enough, he finds himself on the front lines in the Second World War, from France to the Western Desert, from the D-Day beaches to Nazi Germany. The time of cavalrymen has long since passed, but Josh finds himself thinking that the mindset still prevails. Though the weapons have changed, the men have not, and so he moves forward bravely, in his iron stallion. The awe-inspiring finale to the Goff war trilogy,
Josh Goff’s experience carries the family tradition into armoured warfare during the Second World War. The novel contrasts inherited ideals of cavalry service with campaigns fought by tanks across France, North Africa, Normandy and Germany.
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