Armoured Warfare On The Eastern Front Images Of War Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives Reissue Anthony Tuckerjones by Anthony Tucker-jones 9781783038220, 1783038225 instant download after payment.

The Second World War Armoured engagements on the Ostfront after the commencement of Unternehmen Barbarossa in June 1941 were some of the fiercest and most savage battles of the entire war. The Ostfront campaign can essentially be divided into two halves, the first half upto Unternehmen Zitadelle (July-August 1943) were all about the combined Axis forces being able to hold their own territory in Russia and The Ukraine, at the very least, after the successes of Summer 1941. After August 1943 the momentum of the war in the east was no longer in Germany's favour, with the Reich's Axis coalition all but destroyed by late 1944, and after the destruction of the Reich's forces in Army Group Centre during Operation Bagration they were now defending Poland and the Baltic States after the loss of all of their earlier gains since 1941. The Reich had been comprehensively beaten in battle and had now been effectively driven out of the East all together, they had gone from being the undisputed masters and innovators of armoured warfare to being on the receiving end of an increasingly aggressive and much more competent Russian Military Force, which was even now making no secret of where its ultimate target would be - Berlin - something once thought unthinkable and impossible was now no longer a matter of if they would reach it but when. Armoured Warfare Historian and Author Anthony Tucker-Jones has selected some fascinating but at times graphic images to tell the story of Armoured Warfare from 1941-1945, as he describes and illustrates what it was like to go to war inside an Axis or Russian Armoured Battle Group during world war two.