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Percy Hobart was one of the greatest military thinkers of his time. Sidelied by the military establishment, he was brought out of retirement at the insistence of Winston Churchill in the lead up to Overlord. Hobart provided the British part of the Allied landing forces with all kinds of unique variants of established military vehicles, specially designed to overcome the peculiar obstacles expected in a beach landing in such hevily defended territory.
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"'Hobart was the Guderian, in some ways also the Rommel, of the British Army...few men have left so deep an impression on people, and on their profession - in this case on the evolution of military technique.' Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart; 'A brilliant study of a great man. A story every army officer should read. His place in the history of modern warfare is secure - marked by his vision and deep professional understanding, underlined by immense courage, devotion to duty and determination - characteristics which brought him to the borders of genius. Kenneth Macksey is to be warmly congratulated on making a very solid contribution to the written record of the Royal Tank Regiment and for drawing so sure a picture of its greatest member.' The Tank; 'I enjoyed the book enormously. Hobo was superb as GOC 79th Armoured Division.' Montgomery of Alamein"
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- PublisherHutchinson
- Publication date1967
- ISBN 10 0090849507
- ISBN 13 9780090849505
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
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Armoured crusader: A biography of Major-General Sir Percy Hobart
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Armoured Crusader book by Major K. J. Macksey
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> The subject of this biography-welcome but overdue, as is the British way-was the Guderian, and in some ways also the Rommel, of the British Army. Significantly, both these two great leaders of the German Panzer Forces regarded him admiringly as their exemplar, and the prime practitioner of the technique they applied. Yet also in the British way, he was never given such opportunity of command in war as they obtained, although before they even emerged he had made an outstanding mark on the development of armoured forces everywhere. But he went on to become the main influence on the further developments that became decisive in the final stage of the war. Christened Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart, he disliked his primary baptismal name Percy, and only readopted it, in deference to his mother, on being knighted. His family and intimate friends called him 'Patrick' while in the Royal Tank Corps, and throughout the Army, he was always known as 'Hobo'. The variety of names aptly symbolised his diversity in unity. Th. Seller Inventory # Batch-FM478-VG-10655
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Armoured Crusader: Major-General Sir Percy Hobart
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