Tanks in Hell - A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa
by Oscar E. Gilbert and Romain Cansiere
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Tanks in Hell nominated for the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award by the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation as the best 2015 non-fiction book about the Marine Corps.
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Released - 18 May 2015.
This unique study describes the battle of Tarawa as you've never seen it: from the tankers point of view.
It is the story of Charlie Company, 1st Corps Medium Tank Battalion from its activation at Pendleton in January 1943 to its disbandment in February 1944.
It relates the life conditions of the crewmen from the training to the post-Tarawa training time on Hawaii via the terrible fight on Betio from which only two medium tanks survived.
Authors Ed Gilbert and Romain Cansière used a wide panoply of original sources for this book.
Official repports, ground and aerial photographs, maps as well as interviews from the survivors allowed them to create the most complete account of the Tanks on Tarawa never published before.
Also, the work from other independent researchers during the past twenty years was generously shared with the authors.
This is the story of Charlie Company's men and their iron horses, the M4A2s.
More can be read here:
http://www.casematepublishers.com/index.php/tanks-in-hell.html#.VuHYb9DxLIU
Book reviews from:
- The AMPS: http://www.amps-armor.org/ampssite/Reviews/showReview.aspx?Type=BR&ID=3455
- Armorama: http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=11499
- The Leatherneck magazine, Volume 98, Issue 10, October 2015: https://www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck/2015/10/books-reviewed
- The Spectrum: http://www.thespectrum.com/story/life/2015/12/13/tarawas-tanks-truly-spent-time-hell/77253116/
- Amazon.com : http://www.amazon.com/Tanks-Hell-Marine-Company-Tarawa/product-reviews/1612003036/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
You can order here:
http://www.amazon.com/Tanks-Hell-Marine-Company-Tarawa/dp/1612003036/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429631810&sr=8-1
Jacket and book excerpt are reproduced here by permission of Casemate Publishers.
Front dust jacket
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Rear dust jacket
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Book excerpt from Tanks in Hell: a Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa
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