Armoured Warfare in the Battle for Normandy: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

By Anthony Tucker-Jones

The remarkable photographs collected together for this book show in graphic detail the role armor played in the Allied struggle to exploit the D-Day landings and liberate occupied France - and the skill and tenacity of the German panzer units that confronted them. The struggle gave rise to a sequence of battles that were among the most intense, and critical, of any fought in the Second World War.

Anthony Tucker-Jones traces the entire course of the armored campaign through the photographs - the D-Day landings, the first clashes of the opposing tanks and antitank guns, then the Allied operations - Epsom, Charnwood, Goodwood, Cobra - that culminated in the Allied breakthrough and the destruction of the German 5th Panzer Army at Falaise.

The images offer a fascinating inside view of the fighting itself - and of the widespread destruction and horrific casualties that went with it. But they also record the routines of tank warfare, and give a vivid impression of the experience of the tank crews of the day and of the tanks they operated - the German Mk IVs, Panthers, Tigers and self-propelled guns, and the Allied Shermans, Churchills and specialized tanks - Hobart's Funnies - that confronted each other in the French countryside and towns.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848845170
• ISBN13: 9781848845176
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 9.6"