Armored Thunderbolt: The U.S. Army Sherman in World War IIStackpole Books, 2008 - 384 sidor • Hundreds of photos, including many never published before with riveting accounts of armored warfare in World War II • Compares the Sherman to other tanks, including the Panther and Tiger • Author is a world-renowned expert on the Sherman tank and American armor Some tank crews referred to the American M4 Sherman tank as a "death trap." Others, like Gen. George Patton, believed that the Sherman helped win World War II. So which was it: death trap or war winner? Armor expert Steven Zaloga answers that question by recounting the Sherman's combat history. Focusing on Northwest Europe (but also including a chapter on the Pacific), Zaloga follows the Sherman into action on D-Day, among the Normandy hedgerows, during Patton's race across France, in the great tank battle at Arracourt in September 1944, at the Battle of the Bulge, across the Rhine, and in the Ruhr pocket in 1945. |
Innehåll
| 1 | |
Chapter 2 Birth of the Sherman 33 | 33 |
Chapter 3 The Panzer Nemesis 61 | 61 |
Improve or Replace? 101 | 101 |
Chapter 5 Bocage Buster 137 | 137 |
Chapter 6 To Paris and Beyond 171 | 171 |
Chapter 7 Through the Mud and Blood 201 | 201 |
Chapter 8 Armored Superiority in the Ardennes 243 | 243 |
Chapter 11 Cold War Sherman 323 | 323 |
Chapter 12 Report Card on the Sherman 327 | 327 |
Technical and Production Data 331 | 331 |
Strength and Loss Statistics 338 | 338 |
Allied Data 345 | 345 |
Bibliographic Essay 347 | 347 |
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Back Cover | 361 |
Chapter 9 On to the Rhine 273 | 273 |
Chapter 10 From Bloody Tarawa to the Sands of Iwo Jima 301 | 301 |
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Armored Thunderbolt: The U. S. Army Sherman in World War II Steven Zaloga Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2025 |
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