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Panther vs Sherman: Battle of the Bulge 1944 (Duel)

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In this book Steven J Zaloga offers a fascinating comparison of the combat performance of the two most important tanks involved in the crucial fighting of 1944, the Sherman and the Panther. Examining the design and development of both tanks, Zaloga notes the obvious superiority that the Panther had over the Sherman and how the highly engineered German tank was eventually beaten back, not necessarily by the improvements made to the Sherman, but rather by the superior numbers of tanks that the Allies were able to put into the field.

Putting the reader into the heart of this battle between quality and quantity Zaloga examines the tactical intricacies of the battles between these two rivals. Using a compelling account of the ferocious fighting in the Ardennes region to explain the successes and failures of each tank he also highlights the fact that a tank can only be as good as its crew, weighing up the impact of low morale, high cost and mediocre crew training on the Panthers superiority. Packed with full-colour battlescenes, technical drawings, photographs, digital gunsight views, extracts from crew training manuals and real combat reports, this book brings to life the titanic battles between the Sherman and the Panther.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.54219348
EAN: 9781846032929
ISBN: 184603292X
Label: Osprey Publishing
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: 2008-09-23
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Release Date: 2008-09-23
Studio: Osprey Publishing


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Needs a Better Editor
Comment: It's the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte, not Liebstandarte. Otherwise, it's an enjoyable small book.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Blatant bias
Comment: I recently purchased this book expecting a 'straight down the middle'evaluation of the pros and cons of these two famous tanks.What I got was a work full of Mr Zaloga's inherant bias against German technological achievements.He frequently cites examples of sherman successes whilst totally ignoring the more numerous panther examples.It seems to me that it is Mr Zaloga's mission in life to discredit all things German.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Panther vs. Sherman in the Battle of the Bulge
Comment: I wish I had had this book fifteen years earlier before I constructed my table-top game of the Bulge (12' x 6', several tiers, HO scale trees, tanks, and soldiers on stands). The students would moan and groan (those driving the Shermans ,1/72nd scale tanks)when the German tanks would clobber their thinclads at extreme ranges. In reality, the book confirms that. But one needed to take into account the heavy forested areas that impaired line of sight during this winter onslaught by the Germans.
Overall, this is an extraordinary book that explains the advantages and disadvantages for the two armoured fighting vehicles. This is an outstanding book for the WWII armor enthusiast, as well as for the wargamer. This is another book that I will be passing along to my grandson.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Outstanding!
Comment: I was surprised to discover how much interesting information was contained in this little book. Before reading this book, I was one of those who just assumed that the Panther could beat anything the Allies could put against it. I was wrong. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, the Germans did not have good tanks as is assumed. It was a myth. What got the German victories were their tactics. Radios in all of the tanks etc. The French and Russians actually had better tanks with bigger caliber guns but used them poorly.

By the end game, it was the Germans who had better tanks (in theory) but had poorly trained crews and used them incorrectly.

I highly recommend this book for the serious WWII historian.


Customer Rating:
Summary: PANTHER VS SHERMAN Scores a Bull's Eye!
Comment: After a shaky beginning, Osprey's 'Duel' series is really hitting its stride, courtesy of series' entries like Steven Zaloga's PANTHER VS SHERMAN volume. Noted armor authority Zaloga's book provides an insightful comparison between the two armored mainstays of the American and German armies, the Sherman and the Panther. It makes for fascinating reading.

Though Zaloga's book contains a fair share of combat, it is less concerned with WHAT happened in Panther-Sherman encounters than WHY the encounters turned out as they did. He examines factors such as crew arrangement within the tank , ammunition storage, quality control and crew training, factors which played important roles in the combat performance and success of the two adversaries. Along the way he disposes of various myths surrounding both tanks (i.e. it took five Shermans to kill a Panther, etc.). I've read a number of books on tanks and tank warfare but seldom has an author produced such an illuminating summary as Zaloga in this 2008 Osprey volume.

Though other reviewers haven't commented on this point, I found the illustrations in Zaloga's book quite instructive. The artwork depicting the turrets of each tank and especially the gunsight view from each added a visual dimension to the mano-a-mano story I found fascinating.

In short, PANTHER VS SHERMAN has a lot going for it. Every armor buff needs to add this insightful, well-ilustrated volume to their collection. Highly recommended.

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