Absorbing new account of the Greek campaign of 1941. Features graphic first-hand accounts of key episodes. A timely reassessment of a neglected theatre of the Second World War in the Mediterranean.
Absorbing new account of the Greek campaign of 1941. Features graphic first-hand accounts of key episodes. A timely reassessment of a neglected theatr...
Of all the tanks in the German arsenal the Tiger was perhaps the one most feared, certainly by the Western Allies from the time they first encountered it in North Africa to the end of the war in Europe. This was no small feat for a tank of which only 1,347 were produced out of a total German tank production of around 27,000 tanks. This is not surprising given that it was armed with the dreaded 88 mm gun, the rounds of which could pass right through a Sherman tank and whose thick frontal armour meant that it was virtually invulnerable to anything the Allies could field at that time. Though a...
Of all the tanks in the German arsenal the Tiger was perhaps the one most feared, certainly by the Western Allies from the time they first encountered...
