Description
Author: Doherty, Richard
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Place: Barnsley
Cover: dust jacket
Condition: New Book
Category: WW2 Military
Year: 2013
Edition: 1st edition
Size: octavo
Description: xxxi + 270pp., b/w plates, maps & plans, appends., bibliog., index, A total of eleven British armoured divisions were formed during the 1939-1945 war but, as this highly informative book reveals, just eight saw action. In 1940 only 1st Armoured Division faced the overwhelming German blitzkrieg and it was in the North African desert that the armoured division concept came of age. The terrain was ideal for armoured warfare and six divisions of 8th Army fought Rommel’s panzers to a standstill. Three were disbanded prior to the invasion of Sicily and Italy. D-Day saw the Guards Armoured, the Desert Rats, 11th and the unique 79th Armoured Divisions in action
