Armoured Warfare In Northwest Europe 1944 - 1945 (Images Of War - Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives)

The latest work in this imprint by the former British Intelligence Officer, Armoured Warfare Historian, and Author, Anthony Tucker-Jones examines the individual Armoured Units, Supporting Infantry, and Battle Groups, that served as part of the overall Allied contribution to the Campaign to liberate Europe. The images used to illustrate this visual history are all drawn from photographic collections of an official and unpublished type, collated from all across Europe, and this work is a direct sequel to his 2012 title about the Normandy Breakout Period. It has been designed to provide a general photographic guide and covers all the major armoured engagements that took place over 1944-45 after the Normandy breakout during the campaign across North Western Europe. The armoured warfare that was conducted by both Allied and Axis Forces during the Northwest European Campaign of 1944-45 was characterised principally by a series of bitter and savage engagements aimed at overcoming the major rivers and waterways of central Europe. The Allied High Command had already made the decision early in the campaign to substitute the daring of Blitzkrieg tactics with its own much more cautious, but nonetheless effective strategy of a wide frontal attack, which was aimed at rolling back Axis forces through the use of superior firepower and numbers. The one exception to these wide frontal attacks had ended in failure during the disastrous Operation Market Garden in September 1944, and this in turn made the Allied High Command even more risk averse to any other similar narrow front operations. In late March 1945 the Allied forces reached the last major waterway in their path - The Rhine - and after a well planed combined operation including the use of Airborne forces and amphibious vehicles, crossed over it successfully and entered into German territory. A few weeks later in May 1945 it was finally all over. This latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Joness 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 Bourgubus 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-Joness 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. [Elib] This 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 This 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 Bourguebus 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." Photographic history of American, British, Canadian and German armoured vehicles in action during the final stages of the Second World War Graphic insight into the conditions of armoured warfare seventy years ago