A study of the role of the lady in 11th and 12th century society, how she related to predominant male culture, interacted with gentlemen, and suffered at the hands of rogues of her own class. The text is illustrated by contemporary drawings from manuscripts and documents.

Death by design: The fate of British tank crews in the Second World War

History

Beale, Peter

Middle East

Sutton

Graphically reveals to the reader just what it was like to live and fight as a member of a British heavy tank battalion in the Second World War. Detailed appendices for battalion casualties, honours and awards.

TANK TRACKS: 9TH BATTALION ROYAL TANK REGIMENT AT WAR, 1940-45

Military

Budding Books

<p>Beale, who served with the 9th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment from 1943 to 1945, argues that Britain's tank crews were poorly prepared for battle during WWII, particularly compared with German and Soviet tank forces. He reviews British tank development up to 1945 and attempts to identify the causes behind Britain's lack of preparation, including major international events from 1919 to 1939, the British government's response to those events, and the development of tank doctrine and weaponry. Distributed by International Publishers Marketing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)</p>

Death by Design: The Fate of British Tank Crews in the Second World War

Sutton Pub Ltd

Originally published in 1995 and now available in paperback, an examination of what life was like for members of the 9th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment from D-Day 1944 through to the end of the Second World War, which looks at their operations on the continent and includes personal accounts.

Tank Tracks: 9th Battalion Royal Tank Regimental War 1940-1945

<p>Inefficient command structures, conflicts between Allied commanders and differing American and British military cultures all contributed to a huge missed opportunity, described by many historians as 'The Great Mistake'. On September 4, 1944, the British 11th Armoured Division entered Antwerp, capturing the docks intact with Belgian assistance. It was 85 days, however, before the first Allied cargo ship reached the docks on November 29. Some 80,000 soldiers of the German Fifteenth Army slipped across the Scheldt Estuary and escaped towards Germany along the Beveland peninsula. Had 11th Armoured Division immediately sealed off the peninsula where it joined the mainland, the Allies could have eliminated the Fifteenth Army and opened Antwerp's port much earlier, potentially allowing them to cross the Rhine and defeat Nazi Germany in 1944. </p>

The Great Mistake: The Battle For Antwerp And The Beveland Peninsula, September 1944

At the outbreak of war in 1939 British tank crews were ill-equipped, under trained and badly led. As a consequence the lives of hundreds of crewmen were wasted unnecessarily. This was due not only to the poor design and construction of British tanks, but also to the lack of thought and planning on the part of successive pre-war governments and the War Office. Death by Design explores how and why Britain went from leading the world in tank design at the end of the First World War to lagging far behind the design quality of Russian and German tanks in the Second World War. This book is a much-needed warning to governments and military planners; a nation must always be prepared to defend itself and ensure that its soliders are equipped with the tools to do so.

Death by Design: British Tank Development In The Second World War

Europe

The History Press

Lucky Lancaster

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie Publishers Ltd

Tank Tracks Battalion Royal Tank Reg

Sutton Publishing

Against the backdrop of the sweeping conquest of Western Europe by Hitler's mighty Panzer Divisons in WWII, Australia produced 66 cruiser tanks - the Sentinel tank - but none ever took the field of battle. The story of Australian tanks in WWII portrays governments under pressure and bureaucratic bungles that saw opportunities lost and precious resources squandered when the nation was under greatest threat. This careful dissection of government process in the crucible of war is a rare gem in an age when most wartime histories focus on the front-line soldier.

Fallen Sentinel: Australian Tanks in World War II

Australia & Oceania

Big Sky Publishing

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