World War II Infantry Anti-Tank Tactics

By Gordon Rottman

The battlefield interaction between infantry and tanks was central to combat on most fronts in World War II (1939-1945). The first ‘Blitzkrieg’ campaigns saw the tank achieve a new dominance. New infantry tactics and weapons – some of them desperately dangerous – had to be adopted, while the armies raced to develop more powerful anti-tank guns and new light weapons. By 1945, a new generation of revolutionary shoulder-fired AT weapons was in widespread use. This book explains in detail the shifting patterns of anti-tank combat, illustrated with photographs, diagrams and colour plates showing how weapons were actually employed on the battlefield.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Aug 20, 2013
• ISBN: 9781472805188

Gordon Rottman

Gordon Rottman lives outside of Houston, Texas, served in the Army for twenty-six years in a number of “exciting” units and wrote wargames for Green Berets for eleven years. He’s written over 130 military history books, but his interests have turned to adventurous young adult novels—influenced by a bunch of audacious kids, Westerns owing to his experiences on his wife’s family’s ranch in Mexico, and historical fiction focusing on how people lived and thought—history does not have to be boring. His first Western novel, The Hardest Ride, garnered three writing awards and was a USA Today and Amazon best seller.

Reviews for World War II Infantry Anti-Tank Tactics

[charlesferdinand_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Like many books in this series, it attempts to cover too much ground in too small a format. There is lots of interesting information, but it would have been a better book if the author had concentrated on man-portable weapons and mines, and left the discussion of AT guns for another volume. Useful as a general introduction, though.