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Armoured Warfare from the Riviera to the Rhine 1944 - 1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Anthony Tucker-Jones
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Description for Armoured Warfare from the Riviera to the Rhine 1944 - 1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Paperback. Rare photographs of the Allied campaign against the Germans in southern France Num Pages: 160 pages, 175 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; AJCR; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 245 x 10. Weight in Grams: 400.
While the Allied armies were deadlocked with the Germans in Normandy after D-Day and even as they broke out and began their long advance, another campaign was being fought against the Germans in southern France - and it is this campaign, which is often neglected in accounts of the liberation of Europe, that is the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones's latest photographic history. In a sequence of over 150 wartime photographs he tells the story, from the amphibious invasion of the French Riviera - Operation Dragoon - to the battle at Montelimar, the forcing of the Belfort gap, the destruction of ... Read more
While the Allied armies were deadlocked with the Germans in Normandy after D-Day and even as they broke out and began their long advance, another campaign was being fought against the Germans in southern France - and it is this campaign, which is often neglected in accounts of the liberation of Europe, that is the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones's latest photographic history. In a sequence of over 150 wartime photographs he tells the story, from the amphibious invasion of the French Riviera - Operation Dragoon - to the battle at Montelimar, the forcing of the Belfort gap, the destruction of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473821460
SKU
V9781473821460
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99-10
About Anthony Tucker-Jones
Anthony Tucker-Jones is a former defence intelligence officer and a widely published expert on regional conflicts, counter-terrorism and armoured warfare. He is author of over a dozen books including the Falaise: The Flawed Victory, Operation Dragoon: The Liberation of Southern France 1944, Armoured Warfare on the Eastern Front, The Kalashnikov in Combat and The Soviet-Afghan War. He is security and ... Read more
Reviews for Armoured Warfare from the Riviera to the Rhine 1944 - 1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Tucker-Jones demonstrates that the so-called Champagne Campaign was not the cakewalk some historians might have you believe.
Wargames Illustrated (04/01/2017)
Wargames Illustrated (04/01/2017)