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Title: Steel Victory : The Heroic Story of America's Independent Tank Battalions at War in Europe by HARRY YEIDE ISBN: 0-89141-782-6 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A close-up of the Sherman tankers
Comment: Although many books have been written on tank warfare in various theaters-both from a strategic, tactical, and theoretical point of view, Yeide's Steel Victory gives us an excellent first-hand impression of what it was like to be Sherman tanker during World War II. It is not all guts and glory. Hampered by the American tank theoretician's idea of what a tank should be able to do and not do, Yeide succeeds in capturing the bitter lessons learned by those units in which it was employed to support infantry, and describing the frustration of those who drove and fired Shermans with orders from the generals who seemed to know little about how to employ them properly.
It is probably a testament to the tanker's ingenuity that not only did they learn to offset the Sherman's poor design, but also developed tactics at the smallest unit level (often the platoon) to defeat German defense in the Bocage country, and the much more dangerous Panther and Tiger tanks that appeared in increasing numbers after D-Day, by improving infantry-armor coordination.
Steel victory should prove a solid read to both military buffs and novitiate alike.
Rating: 5
Summary: Historical research of the highest order
Comment: Amazingly, no previous work has been written on this topic and Mr. Yeide's work admirably fills this lacuna. This book is an exhaustively researched contribution to military history, yet readable for the non-specialist like myself. Interspersed with historical facts are anecdotes and personal recollections, which add the personal and human dimensions so often lacking in historical accounts. The historic photographs were particularly welcome, and the maps in the beginning helped clarify sometimes confusing battle movements. The appendices are detailed and will be very useful as a reference. For anyone interested in this sorely neglected aspect of World War II military history, this intelligent, lucid and extensively researched work is a must-read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Victory with Steel Armor in World War Two
Comment: The work is long overdue. Little information was known of the role of the independent tank battalions of world war two until this book was produced. The author has done an exceptional job of reseraching and writing the history of the Independent Armored Forces of the U.S. Army of World War Two. These independent tank battaion were created for the sole mission of support for Infantry. The author exposes how these battalions did their jobs- with great skill , leadership and in anonymity.
The author makes the clear distinction between the armored divisions of Gen. Patton fame and the dirt grinding hard slugging tank battalions attached to the infantry and moving at the pace of infantry. This is a good buy for everyone interested in the military forces of world war two and should be an important reference for the subject material.
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Title: Our Liberators: The Combat History of the 746th Tank Battalion During World War II by W. J., Jr Blanchard ISBN: 1587361930 Publisher: Fenestra Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Tanks for the Memories: Expanded Second Edition by Aaron Elson ISBN: 096406118X Publisher: Chi Chi Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Tank Driver: With the 11th Armored from the Battle of the Bulge to Ve Day by J. Ted Hartman, Ted J. Hartman ISBN: 0253342112 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius (Stackpole Military History Series) by Otto Carius, Robert J. Edwards ISBN: 0811729117 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Tank Rider: Into the Reich With the Red Army by Evgeni Bessonov, Bair Irincheev ISBN: 1853675547 Publisher: Greenhill Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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