The Armoured Campaign in Normandy: June - August 1944 [Paperback] Napier, Stephen

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Product Overview

Beginning with the D-day landings, this is a brutally frank appraisal of the
planned use and actual results of the deployment of armour by both German and
Allied commanders in the major tank battles of the Normandy campaign including
operations Epsom, Goodwood, Cobra and Totalize. The Armoured Campaign in
Normandy is a critique of Montgomery’s plans to seize territory and break out
and describes how they failed in the face of German resistance. It details the
poor planning and mistakes of British senior commanders and how the German
Army’s convoluted chain of command contributed to their own defeat; these were
decisions taken which cost the lives of the tank crews of both sides ordered
to carry them out.Official reports, war diaries, after action reports,
letters, regimental histories, memoirs of generals and recollections of tank
men are used to tell the inside story of the campaign from an armour point of
view to give a different but detailed perspective of the Normandy campaign
from the men who fought in it. Read more