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Originally Posted by Von Poop
Required reading for the 'Normandyite' I reckon.
Cheers,
Adam.
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Definitely.
IMPO Buckley ( and others ) have now redressed the balance by clearly stating their case that 21st Army have been rather unfairly treated by post-war historians who have followed Liddell Hart's rather biased thinking.
Full marks also to Buckley for the chapter 'Morale and Motivation'. After some of the rather dry and theoretical earlier chapters, he quotes some very sobering personal accounts of just what happened inside a 'brewed-up' tank. Something worth keeping in mind for those
'Oh - we could afford to lose 5 Shermans for every Tiger/Panther' arguments......
Not a cheap book, but a 'must-read' for anyone interested in the subject.