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

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 157.
Main Author: Robeson, Westin Ellis, 1984- (Author)
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 157.
Subjects:
United States. > Army. > Tank Battalion, 781st > History.
United States. > Army > Armored troops > History > World War, 1939-1945.
United States. > Army.
United States. > Army. > Tank Battalion, 781st.
World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Tank warfare.
Armed Forces > Armored troops.
Regimental histories.
Tank warfare.
United States.
1939-1945
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xii, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Format: Government Document Book
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.