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From the crude, unreliable tanks that first appeared on the Western Front during World War I to todays high-tech machines, Tanks and Military Vehicles features 300 of the most important and influential tanks and AFVs from 1916 to the present day. ...

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Get up close to more than 400 of the most important tanks and armoured vehicles ever built. In 1916, the British built a machine that was impervious to enemy fire, and could dominate the battlefield, crushing obstacles and barbed wire in its path....

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From Aristotle's description of a submersible chamber and experiments with an underwater capsule by Alexander the Great, inventors have pursued the dream of undersea travel. This fully illustrated book follows that dream, starting with exampl...

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This book is an authoritative history and directory of tanks and their immediate derivatives, such as ARVs (armoured recovery vehicles), tank destroyers, command versions, bridgelayers, mine-clearers and other Funnies, and AFVs such as armoured ca...

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Illustrated with detailed artworks of German tanks and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, Wehrmacht Panzer Divisions 193945 is the definitive study of the equipment and organisation of the Wehrmachts armoured divisions. Or...

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Illustrated with original artwork and archive photos, this is the history of Germany's extensive use of captured tanks in World War II. In this book Steven J. Zaloga, one of the world's leading armor authorities, uncovers the history of ...

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A ground-breaking new study that transforms our understanding of one of the most famous battles of the Second World War, widely mythologized as the largest tank battle in history. Today in Russia there are three official sacred battlefields: Kulik...

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During the war hundreds of German panzer commanders and gunners accomplished the feat of personally destroying at least 20 enemy tanks. In this book they are for the first time all gathered together, with their individual stories examined in detai...

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'The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up. The swine had pretended to be dead when our infantry came past him! That's an old classic, pretending to be dead and then firing from the r...

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This impressive, newly-updated encyclopedia is both a fascinating history of aircraft carrier development and a well-documented visual directory of more than 150 of the worlds aviation ships spanning a period of almost 120 years. The books coverag...

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By 1944, the evolution of armoured doctrine had produced very different outcomes in Britain and Germany. Offering a good balance of speed, protection and firepower, the British Cromwell tank was much faster than its German opponent, but the Jagdpa...

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This fully illustrated volume compares two of the most iconic AFV's: the SU-152/ISU-152 and the Tiger, used on the Eastern Front during World War II. On the Eastern Front in 1943, the Tiger-equipped heavy Panzer battalions gave German armoure...

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Opel Blitz (German for ""lightning"") was the name given to various light and middle-weight truck series built by the German automobile manufacturer Opel from 1930. This book focuses on the light version of the Blitz lorry depl...

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'War as it should be described - ordinary men facing extraordinary horror' The Times 'Epic and moving...Holland brings this cramped universe vividly to life' Daily Telegraph 'Does not disappoint... Holland takes us down to...

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When the Allied armies landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944 the backbone of the armoured reaction force awaiting them was made up of 758 Pzkpfw IV tanks, a number which represents almost half the fully-tracked vehicles available for the d...

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A comprehensive history of the legendary armoured vehicles of the Panzerwaffe, Germany's most famous fighting force. The final years of World War II saw the legendary Panzerwaffe face its most difficult challenges, with Allied troops landing ...

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A comprehensive history of the legendary armoured vehicles of the Panzerwaffe, Germany's most famous fighting force. The first two volumes of the History of the Panzerwaffe have described how the Germans transformed armoured warfare from a lu...

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An award-winning US Marine Corps armor historian's account of the role of US and Japanese tanks on Iwo Jima. The battle of Iwo Jima is iconic and known for its brutality: this was the only battle in which the number of US casualties outnumber...

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Illustrated with detailed artworks of SS tanks and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, Waffen-SS Divisions 193945: The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide is the definitive study of the equipment and organization of Himm...

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Illustrated throughout, this book explains the composition and qualities of the Soviet tank force that fought Germanys mighty Panzers at the biggest tank battle in history. In the summer of 1943, Hitlers army had rebuilt its Panzer forces after de...

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The first book to examine the Japanese and American tank forces in the Philippines campaigns, which saw the biggest armored clashes of the Pacific War. The Philippines saw the most extensive tank combat of any single theater in the Pacific War. In...

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