George Forty Books

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This fully-updated book is an authoritative directory of tanks and their immediate derivatives, such as tank destroyers and armoured recovery vehicles, illustrated throughout.

The Fall of Disaster in the West 1939-40 (Clash of Arms) Forty, George and Duncan, John

The Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV) played a major role in World War II. The artillery found it necessary to mechanise some of its field pieces. Armoured cars were called upon to carry out tasks in addition to reonnaissance. Tank destroyers were designed to seek, and destroy enemy armour. Add to this fascinating array such oddities as spedy oversnow Aerosans (armoured, fast sledges) deployed by the Red Army, to enormous siege guns weighing over 100 tons, to small remotely controlled and tracked demolition vehicles, only six feet in length, to the massive and powerfully equipped armoured trains deployed by the Soviet Union and Germany.

The only part of the British Isles that can answer the question 'What was it like to be invaded and occupied in World War 2?’ are the holiday islands of Jersey, Alderney, Guernsey and Sark. Left undefended in 1940, they fell like ripe plums into German hands.Thereafter they were turned into the most heavily defended parts of the Nazi Atlantic Wall, with massive fortifications, gun emplacements and underground storage tunnels. An army of foreign 'slave workers' was brought in as well as the 27,000 German troops (known as the 'Canada Division' as it was widely assumed that they would eventually become POWs!)Amid the routine of occupation came periods of danger and action from raiding parties. After D-Day the German garrison was cut off and 'the Hunger winter' resulted. In May 1945 the Germans surrendered amid much rejoicing.

Amerikansk Militærhistorie; US Army, 1944-1945; Patton; US Third Army; Krigsfotos; Soldaterliv; Frontliv; Feltliv; Amerikanske Soldater, 1944-1945; Battle of the Bulge; Kampene ved Rhinen; Ardennerne; Krigsfanger; Bastogne; Krigsskildringer

Forty deltog i Koreakrigen 1950-53, hans skildring bygger på diverse enheder og enkeltpersoners dagbøger, interviews, materiale fra myndigheder og institutioner, som deltog i FNs militære og humanitære indsats.