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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Sherman tanks Hellcat tank destroyers Sand other armored vehicles formed a critical component of the American arsenal that helped win World War II in the European theater where they blasted German defenses and countered enemy tanks from D-Day to the Third Reich’s collapse eleven months later. Armored Victory 1945 the second of a two- volume photographic history of U.S. Army armored vehicles in combat-begins with the final phase of the Battle of the Bulge and ends with Germany’s surrender in May 1945. The book concludes with a look at American armored vehicles in development at the end of the war. By January 1945 the Battle of the Bulge had turned in the Americans’ favor but German forces continued to fight tenaciously even as they crumbled. Meanwhile in Alsace in France the Germans launched Operation Nordwind which produced bitter fighting and heavy US. casualties but no gains for the increasingly desperate Third Reich.