RED ARMY ARMOUR IN COMBAT

Wargamers, historians and modellers will find a great source of information here on the vehicles used and tactics and armour. It is a collection of primary source accounts on the combat actions of Red Army tank forces in World War Two with material drawn from post-war debriefs. It is a series of vignettes illustrating Russian tank and anti-tank tactics from the opening days of Operation Barbarossa to the fall of Berlin in the form of after-action reports and analysis. One review commented, 'It was the lack of appreciation by both the ETO high command and the Ordinance department of the fast pace of technological and tactical improvements being implemented on the Eastern Front which led to the off-balance armour encounters in France.' The book includes 13 German accounts, five from 1941 and three from 1942. The first year of the war saw the Russians suffering heavy losses in desperate attempts to stem the German tide which threatened to engulf them, while simultaneously carrying through fundamental changes in their armoured tactics and equipment. By 1943 the Germans were on the back foot against the seemingly never-ending supply of T-34 tanks and personnel. By the award-winning historian, and well illustrated with maps and diagrams of the action and some archive photos. Very large softback, 174pp.