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Buttoned up : American armor and the 781st Tank Battalion in World War II / Westin Ellis Robeson

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Robeson, Westin Ellis, 1984-
Published
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
xii, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

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Contents
Origins through 1939 -- An introduction -- Dawn of the tank -- The Great War and its wake -- American armor during the interwar years -- Guderian and the German attack on Poland -- Panzers in France -- Summer 1940-Fall 1944 -- Creating the US armored force -- African desert, British troops, American tanks -- World War -- El Alamein -- Disaster in Tunisia -- Lessons from the desert -- The 781st Tank Battalion, Fall 1944-VE day -- The Mediterranean and France -- The separate tank battalion -- Battalion operations, October-December 1944 -- Hunting tanks, improving tanks -- Battalion operations, January 1945 -- Battalion operations, February-March 1945 -- Battalion operations, April-May 1945 -- Postwar and review.
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Z TA475.8 R549bu
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ISBN
9781623495664 hardcover alkaline paper
1623495660 hardcover alkaline paper
9781623495671 electronic book
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-258) and index.
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