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Cut off from the world at war around you, hunkered in an armoured vehicle, yet when you were hit, all you had was a small hatchway between you and incineration. Limited views and limited space was what all of those whose served in them had. But the veteran said that he would not be able to recognise any of the places as all he ever saw of the terrain was a letterbox sized slit view, always looking straight ahead. As a treat, his son planned to drive him around all the old sites of his war service in Normandy, Holland and Germany.

I was once told a story by a World War II veteran who served as a radio operator in one of the British Army tank regiments.

In Fury, starring Brad Pitt and Shia leBeouf, we follow the story of five American soldiers, a crew serving in one tank in Germany, 1945. The latest corner of World War II to be dramatised for the big screen is small.