Tigers in NormandyThis book has it all ... like reading an After the Battle and Panzerwrecks combined ... highly recommended! --Chuck Aleshire, AMPS Chicagoland |
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Contents
| 1 | |
| 19 | |
CHAPTER 3 The Fighting for Hill 112 53 | 53 |
CHAPTER 4 Operation Epsom 65 | 65 |
CHAPTER 5 Operation Jupiter 77 | 77 |
CHAPTER 6 Arrival of the Third Tiger Battalion 108 | 108 |
CHAPTER 7 The Hell of Operation Goodwood 123 | 123 |
CHAPTER 8 German Defensive Measures 148 | 148 |
CHAPTER 9 Operation Bluecoat 165 | 165 |
CHAPTER 10 Operation Totalize and Wittmanns Last Engagement 233 | 233 |
CHAPTER 11 Operation Tractable and the Breakthrough to Falaise 252 | 252 |
CHAPTER 12 Overall Conclusions 356 | 356 |
Appendices 361 | 361 |
| 376 | |
Back Cover | 379 |
Common terms and phrases
11th Armoured Division 1st Company 23rd Hussars 3rd Company abandoned Abteilung advance antitank gun Armee Armoured Brigade artillery fire assault guns attack August battalion commander Bois du Homme bombs Bourguébus bridgehead Caen Cagny Canadian casualties command post Corps counterattack crew defensive east elements enemy tanks engaged Falaise fighter-bombers fighting Firefly flank forces front Frundsberg Generalfeldmarschall German tanks grenadiers Guards Armoured Division heavy high ground Hill Infanterie-Division Infantry Brigade Infantry Division July Kampfgruppe kilometers knocked main gun Maltot Martin-des-Besaces meters moved night Normandy Odon Operation Bluecoat Operation Goodwood Orne Panzer IV’s Panzer-Division Panzer-Lehr-Division Panzergruppe West photograph platoon positions pulled back rear road round Royal Tank Regiment Schroif schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503 schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 sector Shermans side smoke Squadron SS-Panzer SS-Unterscharführer SS-Untersturmführer started tank commander terrain three Tigers Tiger II’s Tiger tanks took Troarn turret vehicles village Villers-Bocage Vire Wittmann woods Yeomanry
Bibliographic information
| Title | Tigers in Normandy |
| Author | Wolfgang Schneider |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Stackpole Books, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0811745090, 9780811745093 |
| Length | 384 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Military / World War II |
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