I recently bought this book to fill in my lack of information of British tanks
during the D Day landings and was greatly impressed with the in depth
information and quality of detail. The book is published by “Historie
and Collections” who are also responsible for most of Jean Restayn`s
fabulous books so I new is was going to be good.
The book covers all the British divisions ,brigades,organization ,markings,
tanks, tank destroyers and artillery. This is backed up by
black and white photographs of the vehicles in action and
high quality colour plates of all the vehicles and their various
markings.
Added to this are various gems of information like most
people are under the impression that the Americans provided
most of the men and armour on the D-Day landings. In fact
between the 6th and 16th of June 1944 the British put ashore
as many men as the Americans(270,000) and more vehicles(46,000).
Also I wasn’t aware that Sherman Firefly`s always had a spotter
tank with them because the violent flash at the muzzle brake
raised a cloud of dust blinding the crew. Its little tiny details
that keep a reader interested.
Overall a fantastic book, full of information for any WW2
historian or military modeller alike. In fact its an interesting
read full stop and comes highly recommended by me.