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Originally Posted by m kenny
History tells us who made the right decision.
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Amen to that, but so many years of conjecture seem to too often have ignored the fact of who actually won.
Buckley never fails to concede that the German vehicles were often
theoretically technically superior (or cooler
) but one of the main thrusts of the book seems to be that this is too easily cited as a lazy way of assessing the actual situation and was in fact dealt with rather successfully by the Anglo-Canadian Armies.
It's a conclusion that I think anyone serious about Armour in Normandy has already come to but it's very nice to have the situation laid out so thoroughly in such a well-researched book.
Required reading for the 'Normandyite' I reckon.
Cheers,
Adam.
(And how about that graph showing number of German tanks faced by the Anglo-Canadians as opposed to the US forces... now there's an explosive little nugget for many cliched 'Patton related' discussions that appear on various forums
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