Images of War - Armoured Warfare in Northwest Europe 1944-1945

Description: Armoured Warfare in Northwest Europe 1944-45Anthony Tucker-JonesThis latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Jones’s series of photographic histories of armored warfare records in graphic detail the role played by tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery during the decisive campaign in northwest Europe in 1944-5. In a sequence of over 200 archive photographs he shows how American, British, Canadian, and Polish armored divisions spearheaded the assault on the Third Reich, and how the Wehrmacht mounted a desperate armored defense. Tanks were required to operate in the dust of Normandy, the mud and waters of the Scheldt and Rhine rivers and the snows of the Ardennes and the forests of Germany. A succession of crucial armored engagements was fought – during the D-Day landings, Operation Goodwood and the struggle for the Bourguébus ridge, the Falaise pocket, the Seine crossing, Arnhem, the German attack in the Ardennes, the Rhine crossing, in the Reichswald and during the rearguard actions and the last-ditch tank battles fought by the panzers in the Ruhr before the German surrender. Anthony Tucker-Jones’s photographic survey of the ultimate tank battles of the Second World War illustrates the range of armored fighting vehicles that were developed during the conflict, and it features the specialized vehicles deployed in Europe for the first time such as the Buffalo, DUKW, Weasel and Terrapin. Series: Images of WarPaperback: 144 pagesPublisher: Pen and Sword; 1st Edition edition (July 19, 2013)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 178159175XISBN-13: 9781781591758Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.5 x 9.5 inches

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