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Allied Tanks at El Alamein 1942 (Paperback)
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Allied Tanks at El Alamein 1942 (Paperback)
Series: New Vanguard
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Discovery Miles 3 440
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Examines Eighth Army's 1,000-strong tank force - rebuilt,
reorganized, and equipped with brand-new Sherman and Churchill
tanks - that secured victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein.
When Eighth Army retired into the defensive line at El Alamein on
30 June 1942, it was tired, dispirited and had lost almost all its
tanks during a string of defeats at Gazala, Tobruk and Mersa
Matruh. After savage defensive fighting at First Alamein, the
reinforced Desert Rats defeated Rommel's last offensive in a
tank-to-tank clash at Alam Halfa in September. The next month, a
completely rebuilt and reorganized Eighth Army, equipped with over
1,000 tanks including the American M4 Sherman, launched the
offensive that would finally drive Rommel out of Africa. Montgomery
shaped the Eighth Army according to his own military ideas, and on
23 October was able to attack the Axis defenses with the largest
force of armoured divisions in its history, with the 1st, 8th and
10th united in a new 'corps de chasse' intended to defeat the
Afrika Korps at its own game, and the 7th and two infantry support
tank brigades assigned to support the XXX and XIII Corps. With the
exception of the A9, 10 and 13 cruisers of 1940-41, as the
offensive began, the Eighth Army contained every type of tank
employed during the North Africa campaign. Using detailed
illustrations of the tanks involved with an analysis of the tactics
employed for battle, this is a focused examination of the tank
forces that won the Second Battle of El Alamein - the most famous
British Army victory of World War II, and one of the turning points
of the war.
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