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Armored Champion - The Top Tanks of World War II (Hardcover)
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Armored Champion - The Top Tanks of World War II (Hardcover)
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What was the best tank of World War II? The Soviet T-34? The German
Tiger? The American Sherman? The question of top tank has provoked
and delighted historians and armor buffs ever since the muzzles
went silent. But though fun to debate, the question is difficult,
if not impossible, to answer in a meaningful way--because national
pride and personal passions come into play, because such sweeping
judgments don't account for the evolution and adaptation of
doctrine and design, of tactics and technology, and often don't
consider important factors such as cost and reliability. In Armored
Champion Steven Zaloga breaks down the war into eight periods and
evaluates the tanks that slugged it out during each. His criteria
focus on the "holy trinity" of tank design--armor, firepower, and
mobility--but also include crew training, tactics, affordability,
and dependability. For each time period--for example, Barbarossa in
1941, the Desert War in 1941-42, and the 1944-45 period when
heavies like the King Tiger arrived--Zaloga names a "Tanker's
Choice," the tank which crews might want based largely on
battlefield performance, and a "Commander's Choice," the tank which
senior leaders might choose based on not only technical prowess,
but also quantity-versus-quality considerations and likelihood of
breakdown. Sometimes the two choices are the same; often they are
not. Champions include the Panzer IV and Tiger, the T-34, the
Pershing, and a few surprises. Armored Champion is the product of
more than forty years of research. It relies on extensive
documentation from archives, government studies, and published
sources--much of which has not appeared in English before--to make
fact-based assessments of the tanks that fought the Second World
War. This is both a heavy-caliber blast in the top-tank argument
and a stockpile of ammunition for future debate.
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