Armoured Crusader: The Biography of Major-General Sir Percy 'Hobo' Hobart,One of the Most Influential Military Commanders of the Second World War

by Kenneth Macksey

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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.
  • ISBN10 1904010644
  • ISBN13 9781904010647
  • Publish Date 30 April 2004
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 1 April 2008
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Grub Street Publishing
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 352
  • Language English