During the Second World War, a British Unit won fame as pioneers of armoured warfare. They were one of Churchill's favoured divisions, who tackled Hitler's most feared commanders and his worst war machines... at great cost.
Fighting all the way from the baking sands of the desert, to the hedgerows of Normandy and on to the ruins of Berlin. They were the 7th Armoured Division - the Desert Rats.
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