Armored Champion

Armed with more than 40 years of research, armor expert Steven Zaloga enters the battle over the best tanks of World War II with this heavy-caliber book. Zaloga provides provocative but fact-based rankings, breaking the war into eight periods and declaring a Tanker's Choice and Commander's Choice fo [...]
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Armed with more than 40 years of research, armor expert Steven Zaloga enters the battle over the best tanks of World War II with this heavy-caliber book. Zaloga provides provocative but fact-based rankings, breaking the war into eight periods and declaring a Tanker's Choice and Commander's Choice for each. Champion tanks include the German Panzer IV and Tiger, Soviet T-34, American Pershing, and a few surprises. Charts and diagrams compare firepower, armor protection, mobility, dependability, tactics, training, and overall combat performance. Zaloga relies on extensive documentation from archives, government studies, and published sources--much of which has never been published in English before. "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"