The Great Tank Scandal: British armour in the Second World War
Author : David Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Tanks (Military science)
ISBN :
Author : David Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Tanks (Military science)
ISBN :
Author : David Fletcher
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :
Picking up from where The Great Tank Scandal (published by HMSO in 1989) left off, roughly in the winter of 1942/43, The Universal Tank carries the story of British and Commonwealth Armoured Fighting Vehicles forward to 1945 and the end of the second Great War.
Author : Luigi Manes
Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 8893275317
Carrier is the generic term used to identify a family of small tracked, open-topped and usually armoured vehicles, peculiar to British Army between 1939 and 1945. Originally envisaged to carry a machine gun and its team across the ground defended by enemy small arms fire, Carriers were further adapted to several different roles. These versatile machines, produced in great numbers, were employed by almost every nation involved in World War Two.
Author : Darren Neely
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2021-02-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781908032218
The search for and discovery of seldom seen and unpublished US Army Signal Corps photographs formed the backbone of the first two volumes of Forgotten Archives. In this third installment, author Darren Neely continues his search for new imagery in unknown archives, while broadening contact with veteran's families. This superbly produced 240-page book features 249 clear, high-quality photographs of US and German fighting vehicles, which are complemented by 8-pages of specially commissioned color artwork by Felipe Rodna. QR-codes are included on 31 pages; point your smartphone camera at them to see the scene in Google Maps or Street View.
Author : Darren Neely
Publisher : Panzerwrecks
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9781908032157
252 razor sharp, large format unseen US Signal Corps photos over 240 pages. Specially commissioned artwork by Felipe Rodna.
Author : John Buckley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135774013
This book is an innovative study of the Normandy campaign and the perceived failure of British forces there. It is essential reading for all students of military history and general readers with an interest in the subject.
Author : Steven Zaloga
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0811761134
Armor expert Zaloga enters the battle over the best tanks of World War II with this heavy-caliber blast of a book armed with more than forty years of research. • Provocative but fact-based rankings of the tanks that fought the Second World War • Breaks the war into eight periods and declares Tanker's Choice and Commander's Choice for each • Champions include the German Panzer IV and Tiger, Soviet T-34, American Pershing, and a few surprises • Compares tanks' firepower, armor protection, and mobility as well as dependability, affordability, tactics, training, and overall combat performance • Relies on extensive documentation from archives, government studies, and published sources—much of which has never been published in English before • Supported by dozens of charts and diagrams and hundreds of photos
Author : David Edgerton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0199832676
The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests, and in command of a global production system. Rather than belittled by a Nazi behemoth, Britain arguably had the world's most advanced mechanized forces. It had not only a great empire, but allies large and small.Edgerton shows that Britain fought on many fronts and its many home fronts kept it exceptionally well supplied with weapons, food and oil, allowing it to mobilize to an extraordinary extent. It created and deployed a vast empire of machines, from the humble tramp steamer to the battleship, from the rifle to the tank, made in colossal factories the world over. Scientists and engineers invented new weapons, encouraged by a government and prime minister enthusiastic about the latest technologies. The British, indeed Churchillian, vision of war and modernity was challenged by repeated defeat at the hands of less well-equipped enemies. Yet the end result was a vindication of this vision. Like the United States, a powerful Britain won a cheap victory, while others paid a great price.Putting resources, machines and experts at the heart of a global rather than merely imperial story, Britain's War Machine demolishes timeworn myths about wartime Britain and gives us a groundbreaking and often unsettling picture of a great power in action.
Author : David Fletcher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1472821491
This lavishly illustrated volume details the design, development and operational history of the British-made tanks in World War II. Plagued by unreliable vehicles and poorly thought-out doctrine, the early years of World War II were years of struggle for Britain's tank corps. Relying on tanks built in the late 1930s, and those designed and built with limited resources in the opening years of the war, they battled valiantly against an opponent well versed in the arts of armoured warfare. This book is the second of a multi-volume history of British tanks by renowned British armour expert David Fletcher MBE. It covers the development and use of the Matilda, Crusader, and Valentine tanks that pushed back the Axis in North Africa, the much-improved Churchill that fought with distinction from North Africa to Normandy, and the excellent Cromwell tank of 1944–45. It also looks at Britain's super-heavy tank projects, the TOG1 and TOG2, and the Tortoise heavy assault tank, designed to smash through the toughest of battlefield conditions, but never put into production.
Author : David Fletcher
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
A history of the Tank Corps from 1919 up until the time when, as the Royal Tank Regiment, it went to war again in 1939. The book chronicles the events and innovations of the years between the wars.