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Great Book by Osprey Publishing. 64 pages
You are lying in the dirt, with bullets cracking overhead, looking at the enemy trench system or pillbox from which they are being fired, and the officer says "Get moving take it out!" Well any ideas? Just about every war movie and most famously in recent years, 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Band of Brothers' includes dramatic scenes of soldiers trying to do this. Continuing our series explaining and illustrating World War II tactics, for wargamers, modellers, and our much larger readership of armchair heroes of all ages, this increasingly expert author (who practised these tactics during the Vietnam war) explains and illustrates the kit and the techniques, covering differences in US, British, German, Soviet and Japanese experience. This book will illustrate how soldiers under fire overcame defensive positions ranging from trenches to pillboxes to large bunkers. It will concentrate on small units of foot soldiers with hand-carried equipment. The weapons they used included both purpose-made and improvized: assault charges of various shapes, sizes and characteristics, flamethrowers, grenades and bazookas which will be analysed and explained in detail.