BESTSELLER BOOKS
- Author : Harry Yeide
- Category : History
- Publisher : Stackpole Books
- Pages : 392
Tanks, amphibian tanks, and amphibian tractors in action in all theaters, from Africa and Europe to the Pacific How the battalions fought the war, often in the tankers' own words Crystal-clear maps The U.S. Army's separate ar ...
- Author : Jason Conroy,Ron Martz
- Category : Biography & Autobiography
- Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
- Pages : 288
A no-holds-barred account from the tip of the Army's spear ...
- Author : Stephen Dando-Collins
- Category : Fiction
- Publisher : Random House Australia
- Pages : 304
A gripping story that brings to life one of Australia’s World War I military victories. Frankie and Taz didn't think about killing, or dying, when they lied about their age to join the Australian army. They thought the war ...
- Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on the Management of Certain Radioactive Waste Streams Stored in Tanks at Three Department of Energy Sites
- Category : Science
- Publisher : National Academies Press
- Pages : 88
In response to a request from Congress, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) asked the National Academies to evaluate its plans for managing radioactive wastes from spent nuclear fuel at sites in Idaho, South Carolina, and Was ...
- Author : Franz Kurowski
- Category : History
- Publisher : Stackpole Books
- Pages : 460
With speed, violence, and deadly power, heavily armored tanks spearheaded the German blitzkrieg that stormed across Europe in 1939. In this reprint of the classic book, prolific author Kurowski tells the action-packed stories ...
- Author : Craig Moore
- Category : History
- Publisher : Fonthill Media
- Pages : 250
When the Panzer VI Ausf.E Tiger I tank first arrived on the battlefield, it launched an Allied and Soviet intelligence race to discover everything they could about this new threat. The British Army needed to know how to knock ...
- Author : David Fletcher,Richard C Harley
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 48
For most of World War II, British tank development remained faithful to the design philosophy inaugurated during World War I. Experiences in North Africa highlighted flaws in this basic design, however, and the General Staff ...
- Author : Steven Zaloga
- Category : History
- Publisher : Stackpole Books
- Pages : 512
• Beautifully illustrated with more than 1,200 photos of American tanks and armored vehicles • Completes Zaloga's two-volume photo history of American armor in Europe, covering the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhine crossings ...
- Author : DK
- Category : History
- Publisher : Penguin
- Pages : 256
A visual guide to the history of tanks, Tank tells the full history of tanks through stunning photography and informative text. From the early Mark Is of World War I to the T-34 of World War II to the cutting-edge M1 Abrams o ...
- Author : Steven J. Zaloga
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 48
The Soviet Army hastily developed the T-62 in a struggle to compete against the rapid proliferation of NATO tanks in the 1960s. It was essentially a modification of the widely-manufactured T-55 tank with the addition of a new ...
- Author : James Kinnear,Stephen Sewell
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 196
The T-55 is one of the most iconic weapons created by the Soviets during the Cold War and also one of the most widely deployed weapons in history. Like its younger brother, the T-54, the T-55 enjoyed a long career in the Red ...
- Author : Harry Yeide
- Category : History
- Publisher : Casemate
- Pages : 357
“A fantastic read . . . Whether your interest is armour or history I would highly recommend this book” (Military Modelling). The tank destroyer was a bold—though some would say flawed—answer to the challenge posed by ...
- Author : Steven J. Zaloga
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 48
The US Army's development of the 37mm anti-tank gun began in response to needs identified during the Spanish Civil War. By the time it entered service in Tunisia in 1943, the gun was already obsolete, and the US began the lic ...
- Author : James Kinnear,Stephen Sewell
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 232
The menacing silhouette of the T-54 tank prowling down streets of Eastern European capitals or roaring across fields in massive exercises remains one of the most enduring images of Soviet power in the early years of the Cold ...
- Author : Kenneth W Estes
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 48
The T43 design represented the pinnacle of U.S. Army tank engineering of the late 1940s. The heavy tank proved fairly popular with its crews, who above all respected the powerful armament it carried. The outbreak of war in Ko ...
- Author : Steven J. Zaloga
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 48
The T-26 was the first major Soviet armour program of the 1930s, beginning as a license-built version of the British Vickers 6-ton export tank. Although the T-26 retained the basic Vickers hull and suspension, the Red Army be ...
- Author : Steven J. Zaloga
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 48
The highly successful 'stop-gap' M3 medium tank was designed in 1941, and as adequate turret casting facilities were not yet ready, the M3 used an unusual armament configuration patterned after a French tank. British lend-lea ...
- Author : Benjamin Coombs
- Category : History
- Publisher : A&C Black
- Pages : 224
British Tank Production and the War Economy, 1934-1945 explores the under-researched experiences of the British tank industry in the context of the pressures of war. Benjamin Coombs explores the various demands placed on Brit ...
- Author : Steven J. Zaloga
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 48
From the moment that the M4 Sherman had been matched against German Panther and Tiger tanks, the American tank crews had known that their vehicles were outclassed by the opposition. What was needed was a more powerful tank, m ...
- Author : Steven J. Zaloga
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 80
The emergence of the tank in World War I led to the development of the first infantry weapons to defend against tanks. Anti-tank rifles became commonplace in the inter-war years and in the early campaigns of World War II in P ...
- Author : Bruce Newsome
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 48
The Valentine was the most produced and most widely used British tank of the Second World War. The Valentine first saw combat during Operation Compass in November 1941 and remained one of the main medium tanks in British serv ...
- Author : Simon Forty,Jonathan Forty
- Category : History
- Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
- Pages : 216
Packed with archival photos, a fascinating account of armored warfare in WWII—and how tank design and tactics were transformed during the period. On the battlefields of Europe and North Africa during the Second World War, t ...
- Author : Warren Steel
- Category : Fiction
- Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
- Pages : 176
Welcome to Bullamakanka a small one street Australian country town just south of Sydney often referred to as PPP Pigeon Poop Parade. Where Tank the manager and only employee of the local bowling club who is a virgin and is ab ...
- Author : James Kinnear,Stephen Sewell
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 236
When it was introduced into service in 1953, the T-10 represented a return to the "classic†? Soviet heavy tank. Although considered a major threat to NATO tank forces, it also represented the end of an era. All gun heavy ta ...
- Author : David Fletcher
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 48
The Sherman Crab Flail tank was the powerful culmination of a series of mine-clearing flail tanks developed during World War II. Here, David Fletcher recounts how the Sherman Crabs were among the first tanks ashore on D-Day a ...
- Author : Louis G. Gruntz
- Category : Biography & Autobiography
- Publisher : Fonthill Media
- Pages : 264
A 712th Tank Battalion veteran of Patton's Third Army returned home after the Second World War, but for over fifty years rarely speaks of his wartime experiences. His son grows to manhood with only a perception of combat glea ...
- Author : Gordon L. Rottman,Akira Takizawa
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 64
In this book, expert author and tactician Gordon L Rottman provides the first English-language study of Japanese Army and Navy tank units, their tactics and how they were deployed in action. The Japanese army made extensive u ...
- Author : James Kinnear,Stephen Sewell
- Category : History
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages : 224
The T-62 is one of the most widespread tanks used by the Soviets during the Cold War. Developed from the T-55, the T-62 enjoyed a long career in the Red Army and even into the early days of the reformed Russian Army. It was t ...
- Author : Franz Kurowski
- Category : History
- Publisher : Stackpole Books
- Pages : 307
Chronicles the exploits and battlefield achievements of decorated German tank commanders who led their feared Panzer tank battalions in battle. ...
- Author : Major Christopher W. Wilbeck
- Category : History
- Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
- Pages : 102
This thesis is a historical analysis of the combat effectiveness of the German schwere Panzer-Abteilung or Heavy Tank Battalions during World War II. During the course of World War II, the German Army developed heavy tank bat ...
- Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Committee on the Management of Certain Radioactive Waste Streams Stored in Tanks at Three Department of Energy Sites
- Category : Science
- Publisher : National Academies Press
- Pages : 214
DOE Tank Waste: How clean is clean enough? The U.S. Congress asked the National Academies to evaluate the Department of Energy's (DOE's) plans for cleaning up defense-related radioactive wastes stored in underground tanks at ...
- Author : Jiaofeng Pan
- Category : Social Science
- Publisher : Springer Nature
- Pages : 316
This book provides the readers with the overall latest research on think tanks, summarizing the characteristics of think tanks, revealing the general laws and internal logic of think tank research, applying systems, dialectic ...
- Author : David McCormack
- Category : History
- Publisher : Fonthill Media
- Pages : 176
The popular image of the Japanese tanks which faced the markedly superior tanks fielded by the Allies during the Second World War is one of poorly armed and armoured Lilliputian tin cans which failed to make any impression up ...
- Author : Christopher R. Gabel
- Category : Tank destroyers
- Publisher : DIANE Publishing
- Pages : 92
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- Author : Daniel Swenson,Don Fenton,Zhi Lu,Asif Ghori,Joe Baalman
- Category : N.a
- Publisher : DIANE Publishing
- Pages : 73
Describes research that evaluated the ability of the present design criteria (API 650) to ensure the desired frangible joint behavior. Particular questions include: evaluation of the area inequality as a method to predict the ...
- Author : Peter Hart
- Category : History
- Publisher : Profile Books
- Pages : N.A
This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War. Raw and visceral personal recollections from the men themselves recall some of the most dramatic and horrific scenes imaginable - ...
- Author : Craig Moore
- Category : History
- Publisher : Fonthill Media
- Pages : 144
Using only original official period documents from the Second World War this book tries to provide the reader with the same information on the Panzer V Panther tank that was available to British and Commonwealth senior office ...
- Author : Donald E. Abelson,Christopher J. Rastrick
- Category : Political Science
- Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
- Pages : 416
This important Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the role, function and perceived impact of policy research-oriented institutions in North America, Europe and beyond. Over 20 international scholars explore the diverse and ...
- Author : Franz-Wilhelm Lochmann,Alfred Rubbel,Von Richard Freiherr Rosen
- Category : History
- Publisher : Stackpole Books
- Pages : 456
Hundreds of photos of Tiger tanks in action. Text chronicles the unit's combat operations in the East and West. Personal accounts from the men who rode in these battlefield behemoths. ...