Valentine Infantry Tank 1938-45

by Bruce Newsome and Bruce Oliver Newsome

The Valentine was Britain's most produced and most widely used tank of the Second World War. Having the strange distinction of falling somewhere between an infantry tank and a cruiser tank, the Valentine first saw combat during Operation Compass in November 1941 and remained one of the main medium-size tanks in British service into 1943. As the Churchill tank became more prevalent, the Valentine was relegated to specialist variants like amphibious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472813758
• ISBN13: 9781472813756
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.4" x 9.7"