Description
Product ID: | 9781846032929 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Duel |
Title: | Panther vs Sherman |
Subtitle: | Battle of the Bulge 1944 |
Authors: | Author: Steven J. Zaloga, Jim Laurier, Howard Gerrard |
Page Count: | 80 |
Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, European history, History, Military history, Second World War, Battles and campaigns, European history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Military history, Second World War, Battles & campaigns, Belgium, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
Description: | In this book Steven J Zaloga offers a fascinating comparison between the two most important tanks involved in the crucial fighting of 1944, the American Sherman and the German Panther. Placing the reader in the heart of this battle between quality and quantity Zaloga uses a compelling account of the ferocious fighting during the Battle of the Bulge to explain the successes and failures of each tank, highlighting the fact that a tank can only be as good as its crew, weighing up the impact of low morale, high cost and mediocre crew training on the Panther's superiority. With full-colour battlescenes, technical drawings, photographs, digital gunsight views, extracts from crew training manuals and real combat reports, this book brings the titanic battles between the Panther and Sherman to life. In this book Steven J Zaloga offers a fascinating comparison of the combat performance of the two most important tanks involved in the crucial fighting of 1944, the Sherman and the Panther. Examining the design and development of both tanks, Zaloga notes the obvious superiority that the Panther had over the Sherman and how the highly engineered German tank was eventually beaten back, not necessarily by the improvements made to the Sherman, but rather by the superior numbers of tanks that the Allies were able to put into the field. |
Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2008-09-03 |