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Tigers in Normandy

"[The author] details the combat history of the Tiger in the months following the Allies' invasion of France ... The Tiger might have bested most of its opponents in tank-on-tank combat, but the Germans' deteriorating situation in Normandy meant that the Tigers could not be deployed effectively and that losses could not be replaced. The surviving Tigers joined the battered German forces that escaped through the Falaise Gap in August 1944. Featuring orders of battle, tank inventories, maps, period photos, and then-and-now shots of terrain, [this book] vividly recreates the Tiger's battles from June to August 1944 and carefully assesses its tactical and operational performance"--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2011
Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, ©2011
Bildband
vi, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
9780811710299, 0811710297
701809808
Ch. 1. Movement of the Tiger Formations to Normandy
Ch. 2. The Mystery of Villers-Bocage
Ch. 3. The Fighting for Hill 112
Ch. 4. Operation "Epsom"
Ch. 5. Operation "Jupiter"
Ch. 6. Arrival of the Third Tiger Battalion
Ch. 7. The Hell of Operation "Goodwood"
Ch. 8. German Defensive Measures
Ch. 9. Operation "Bluecoat"
Ch. 10. Operation "Totalize" and Wittmann's Last Engagement
Ch. 11. Operation "Tractable" and the Breakthrough to Falaise
Ch. 12. Overall conclusions