A comprehensive study on one of the most popular campaigns of the Second World War Beginning with the D-day landings, this is a frank appraisal of the planned use and actual results of the deployment of armour by both German and Allied commanders in the major tank battles of the campaign including Epsom, Goodwood, Cobra and Totalize. 'Tiger!' is a critique of how Montgomery's plans to seize territory and break out failed in the face of German resistance. It details the poor planning by British generals who made many mistakes and how the German convoluted chain of command contributed to their own defeat. Numerous primary sources, including official reports, war diaries and regimental histories, are used to tell the inside story of the campaign from an armour perspective, detailing real numbers of tanks lost in the battles of the campaign. AUTHOR: Stephen Napier has studied the Second World War for more than twenty years. He is an Englishman with two degrees (BSc and MBA) now living in Australia. SELLING POINTS: ? A critical narrative using original documents of the Allies' victorious armoured campaign in ? Normandy despite defective, inferior tanks and poor leadership ? New evidence about tanks on D-Day and tank losses in the campaign ? Allied and German perspective from tank crews to generals ? From period documents and reports, memoirs and regimental histories, and original research in archive at Kew, Washington and Ottawa 50 b/w illustrations
