Tank Combat in North Africa
Subtitle: The Opening Rounds: Operations in Sonnenblume, Brevity, Skorpion and Battleaxe, February 1941-June 1941
By: Thomas L. Jentz.
Series: Schiffer Military History
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Atglen, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 221
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Tank warfare.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North.; Tank warfare.
First sentence: The focus of this book is the tank battles fought during the opening phase of the war in North Africa.
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1
title: British Tank Forces
pagenum: 9; label: Chapter 2
title: German Tank Forces
pagenum: 24; label: Chapter 3
title: Italian Tank Forces
pagenum: 39; label: Chapter 4
title: Guns Against Tanks
pagenum: 42; label: Chapter 5
title: Armored Force Tactics
pagenum: 60; label: Chapter 6
title: Rommel Strikes Out
pagenum: 82; label: Chapter 7
title: Repulsed at Tobruk
pagenum: 103; label: Chapter 8
title: Assault on Tobruk
pagenum: 117; label: Chapter 9
title: Operation Brevity
pagenum: 128; label: Chapter 10
title: Operation Skorpion
pagenum: 143; label: Chapter 11
title: Operation Battleaxe
pagenum: 155; label: Appendix A
title: Technical Specifications
pagenum: 191; label: Appendix B
title: German Units Transported to North Africa
pagenum: 214; label: Appendix C
title: Recommended Books
pagenum: 218; label: Appendix D
title: Glossary of German Military Terms
pagenum: 219