The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Western Allied Tanks 1939-45 - Hardcover

Porter, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1906626227 ISBN 13: 9781906626228

Publisher: Amber, 2009

Synopsis

The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Western Allied Tanks, 1939-45 offers an highly illustrated guide to the main armored fighting vehicles used by the Western Allies during World War II. This compact volume includes sample unit structures and orders of battle from company up to corps level, providing an organizational context for key campaigns throughout the war.

Organized chronologically, the book offers a comprehensive survey of Western Allied armored fighting vehicles by campaign, including the fall of Poland, the defense of the Low Countries and France, desert warfare in North Africa, the push through Italy, the Normandy landings, the Battle of the Bulge, and the final defeat of Germany.

All the major and many minor tanks are featured, with variations of the M4 Sherman, Churchill and Matilda, as well as mat-laying, engineering, and mine-clearing versions. Lesser known models from the early years of the war, armored cars, half-tracks, trucks and amphibious vehicles make this a rounded compendium of Western Allied armored fighting vehicles.

Packed with more than 200 full-color artworks and photographs with exhaustive specifications, The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Western Allied Tanks, 1939-45 is a key reference guide for military modelers and World War II enthusiasts.

About this title

About the Author:

Since leaving the British Ministry of Defence in 2006 after 29 years’ service, David Porter has worked on a number of research projects, contributing articles and book reviews to the BBC History Magazine, the British Army Review and the Royal Engineers Journal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amber
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1906626227
• ISBN 13: 9781906626228
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192