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This fully-updated book is an authoritative directory of tanks and
their immediate derivatives, such as tank destroyers and armoured
recovery vehicles. It begins with a history of tank design and
evolution from its first action at Flers during World War I and its
dominance on the battlefields of Europe in World War II to the
powerful fighting machines of the 20th and 21st century seen in
more recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine. There then
follows two directories: 1914-1945 and 1946 to the Present Day.
Focusing on some 230 tanks, each entry includes a description and
history with a specification panel detailing the tank's crew,
weight, dimensions, armament, armour, powerplant and performance.
The tanks are wonderfully illustrated with over 650 photographs,
many of which are from the famous Tank Museum at Bovington, Dorset,
UK, and never previously published in one volume.
The Dorsetshire Regiment's battle honours include the Indian North
West Frontier, the Boer War, Gallipoli, the Western Front, the
Normandy Landings, Arnhem, Kohima, Kosovo, Iraq - and as part of
the Rifles - Afghanistan. Full accounts of the Dorset Rifle
Volunteers, Dorset Yeomanry, Barracks, Forts & Gunsites, the
arrival of the tank and build up to D-Day.
Major General Rea Leakey was one of the Royal Tank Regiment's
greatest heroes of the Second World War. As a young tank commander,
he fought Rommel's Afrika Korps in the Western Desert of Egypt,
before becoming trapped for six months in the siege of Tobruk and
temporarily joining the Australian infantry as an honorary Lance
Corporal. He later returned to the European theatre in 1944 and
served as a Churchill tank commander in Normandy, the Rhine and
Germany. Despite it being strictly forbidden, Leakey kept a diary
throughout his soldiering career. Based on this valuable account,
Leakey's Luck documents Leakey's wartime service in its entirety,
and offers a view of the war through the eyes of a man who was
there at the 'sharp end'. Many of his exploits were hair-raising,
some even too fantastic to believe. Incredibly, Leakey's luck held
out throughout the war, and he remained in the British Army until
retirement in 1968.
To encapsulate the British Army in one book is no easy task, but
here, George Forty presents it as it was during the Second World
War. When war was declared in 1939, the British Army was very much
the 'Cinderella' of the three armed services, with a total strength
of around 865,000 men. However, just four years later when the
Allies invaded north-west Europe, the British Army had grown into a
powerful, well-organised and well-equipped fighting force of 3
million men and women. George Forty presents a comprehensive
overview of the British Army during this important time. He
includes full details of mobilisation and training, higher
organisation and arms of the service; divisional organisations and
non-divisional units; HQs and Staff; the combat arms and the
services; the individual soldier, his weapons and equipment;
tactics; vehicle markings and camouflage; the Auxiliary Territorial
Service and other Women's Corps. Fully illustrated with an unusual
collection of photographs and line illustrations, this is an
indispensable reference guide for anyone interested in this
fascinating period of British history.
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