Armored Champion: The Top Tanks of World War II
- ISBN-10
- 0811714373
- ISBN-13
- 9780811714372
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-05-15
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books
- Author
- Steven Zaloga
Description
Armor expert Zaloga enters the battle over the best tanks of World War II with this heavy-caliber blast of a book armed with more than forty years of research. • Provocative but fact-based rankings of the tanks that fought the Second World War • Breaks the war into eight periods and declares Tanker's Choice and Commander's Choice for each • Champions include the German Panzer IV and Tiger, Soviet T-34, American Pershing, and a few surprises • Compares tanks' firepower, armor protection, and mobility as well as dependability, affordability, tactics, training, and overall combat performance • Relies on extensive documentation from archives, government studies, and published sources—much of which has never been published in English before • Supported by dozens of charts and diagrams and hundreds of photos
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