Research Catalog

Title

Battles with Panzers : Monty's tank battalions 1 RTR & 2 RTR at war / Patrick Delaforce.

Author

Delaforce, Patrick, 1923-

Publication

Stroud : Sutton, 2003.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

248 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Great Britain. Royal Tank Regiment > History
• World War, 1914-1918 > Tank warfare
• World War, 1939-1945 > Tank warfare
• World War, 1914-1918 > Regimental histories > Great Britain
• World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > Great Britain

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. First of Track (1 RTR) -- 1. 1 RTC/RTR in the First World War -- 2. Between the Wars -- 3. The Western Desert, 1939-40 -- 4. Operation Compass and the Beda Fomm Battle -- 5. 1 RTR in the Siege of Tobruk -- 6. The Battles for Sidi Rezegh -- 7. Operations Gamebirds, Lightfoot and Supercharge -- 8. First Tank Group into Tunis -- 9. From Limbo to Avalanche -- 10. Countdown to Overlord -- 11. Normandy, 1944 -- 12. Breakout -- 13. The Great Swan -- 14. Winter in the Peel Country -- 15. Operation Blackcock -- 16. Operation Plunder: on to Berlin -- Pt. 2. Second to None (2 RTR) -- 17. 2 RTC/RTR in the First World War -- 18. Cambrai -- 19. Amiens -- 20. The Last Offensive -- 21. Between the Wars -- 22. With the BEF, 1940 -- 23. The Western Desert, 1940-41 -- 24. The Battle for Beda Fomm -- 25. Operations Brevity and Battleaxe -- 26. Operation Crusader -- 27. Burma, 1942 -- 28. Odyssey to Iraq and Syria -- 29. The Italian Campaign, 1944 -- 30. The Italian Campaign, 1945 -- App. A. 1 RTR Roll of Honour, Officers and Men, 1939-43 -- App. B. 1 RTR Roll of Honour, Officers and Men, 1943-45 -- App. C. 1 RTR Honours and Awards -- App. D. 2 RTR Decorations and Awards -- App. E. Types of Tank in Service with 7th Armoured Division.

ISBN

0750932449

OCLC

51993129

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library