Armoured Warfare In The North African Campaign Images Of War 1st Edition Anthony Tuckerjones by Anthony Tucker-jones 9781783038183, 1783038187 instant download after payment.

The North African campaign, the struggle of the Italians and Germans
against the Allies in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia between 1940 and 1943,
was a war of movement and maneuver, of dramatic changes of fortune, and
it was a war in which mechanized forces - tanks in particular -
excelled. Compared with the heavily populated landscapes of northwest
Europe, the empty open spaces of North Africa appeared to be ideal
operating terrain for tanks, yet the harsh desert conditions tested men
and machinery to the limit, as Anthony Tucker-Jones demonstrates in this
remarkable selection of wartime photographs. The use of armor during
the entire course of the campaign is covered, from the initial Italian
offensive, the arrival of Rommel's Panzergruppe Afrika, the battles
fought along the North African shore which culminated in El Alamein,
then the Allied advance into Tunisia which led to the final defeat of
the German and Italian armies. The images give a fascinating inside view
of combat, but they also reveal the daily routines of tank warfare 65
years ago, and give a vivid impression of what it was like to fight in
and live with the tanks of the day - the German Mk IIIs and Mk IVs and
the Tiger, the British Matildas and Valentines and the American Grants
and Shermans that contributed so much to the Allied victory. Training,
maintenance, transportation and supply are shown, as are the daily lives
of the tank crews and extreme conditions in which they worked and
fought.