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Gripping'
Wall Street Journal ________________________ At first, gunner Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd Armored Division - '
Spearhead' - thought their tanks were invincible. '
Spearhead shimmers in eclipsing moments of valor, luck and compassion.'
Washington Times.
But with it comes a harrowing new responsibility: now they will Spearhead every attack and, in doing so, will lead the US Army into its largest urban battle of the war, the fight for Cologne, the '
Fortress City' of Germany...
After seeing his friends cut down breaching the West Wall and holding the line in the Battle of the Bulge, Clarence and his crew are given a weapon with the power to avenge their fallen brothers: the Pershing, a state-of-the-art 'super tank', one of twenty in the European theatre.
Soon a pattern emerged: the lead tank always gets hit.
Then they met the German Panther, with a gun so murderous it could shoot through one Sherman and into the next. '
Gripping'
Wall Street Journal ________________________ At first, gunner Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd Armored Division - '
Spearhead' - thought their tanks were invincible
