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Tank Combat in North Africa: The ening Rounds erations Sonnenblume, Brevity, Skorpion and Battleaxe (Hardcover)
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Tank Combat in North Africa: The ening Rounds erations Sonnenblume, Brevity, Skorpion and Battleaxe (Hardcover)
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The focus of this book is the tank battles fought during the
opening phase of the war in North Africa. What really happened
during the engagements? How were the tanks fought? What were their
strengths and weaknesses? Not simplified generalities, but
substantive, basic facts gleaned from searching for details in the
surviving original records. The accounts of each battle are
excerpted from the original reports written by the participants
directly after each engagement. To understand the basis for the
outcome of the battles, it is necessary to possess a basic
understanding of the capabilities of each type of tank, its
opponents, and how they were tactically employed. The first five
chapters in this volume provide descriptions and technical
attributes of the British, German, and Italian tanks and anti-tank
guns along with the tactical doctrine from the period. Chapters six
through eleven contain the details of the tank battles fought in
North Africa during the period from February 1941 to June 1941.
Translated excerpts from the Deutsches Afrikakorps war diary are
used as a backdrop to provide a chronological guide as events
progressed. An interesting feature from this war diary was the
brief daily weather report revealing how hot it was and when sand
storms occurred. Details on the actions in the tank battles are
taken from after-action-accounts written directly after the
engagements, enhanced by excerpts from war diaries of the armoured
units involved to fill in the preliminary moves, buildup of
strength, combat losses, and details on the actions that weren't
contained in the after-action-reports. This book is compiled from
the results of digging through original records for over thirty
years in an attempt to find data that would aid in assessing and
understanding the tank battles that took place in North Africa. Tom
Jentz is also the author of Panzertruppen 1933-1942, and
Panzertruppen 1943-1945 (both titles are available from Schiffer
Publishing Ltd.).
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