World War II Infantry Anti-Tank Tactics
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- ISBN 9781841768427
- Weight: 250g
- Dimensions: 182 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2005
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The battlefield interaction between infantry and tanks was central to combat on most fronts in World War II.
The first ‘Blitzkrieg’ campaigns saw the tank achieve a new dominance. New infantry tactics and weapons – some of them desperately dangerous – had to be adopted, while the armies raced to develop more powerful anti-tank guns and new light weapons. By 1945, a new generation of revolutionary shoulder-fired AT weapons was in widespread use.
This book explains in detail the shifting patterns of anti-tank combat, illustrated with photographs, diagrams and colour plates showing how weapons were actually employed on the battlefield.
Gordon L Rottman entered the US Army in 1967, volunteered for Special Forces and completed training as a weapons specialist. He was assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group until reassigned to the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam in 1969–70. He was a Special Operations Forces Intelligence Specialist at the Army's Joint Readiness Center for 12 years, and is now a freelance writer, living in Texas.
Steve Noon was born in Kent, UK, and attended art college in Cornwall. He has had a life-long passion for illustration and since 1985 has worked as a professional artist. As well as illustrating numerous Osprey titles, Steve has provided award-winning illustrations for renowned publishers Dorling Kindersley, where his interest in historical illustration began.
