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...
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Between the two World Wars, the US contributed significantly to the development of the tank, a weapon invented by the British and the French seeking a way to break through the l...
Soviet Lend-Lease Tanks of World War II
Steven J. Zaloga · ISBN 9781472818133
Julkaistu 2017 Kieli englanti nidottu
The Red Army suffered such catastrophic losses of armour in the summer of 1941 that they begged Britain and the United States to send tanks. The first batches arrived in late 19...
A highly illustrated study of the T-90, the backbone of the armoured units of Putin's Russia.In the wake of the T-72 tank’s poor performance in the 1991 Gulf War, the Kremlin in...
The first American armoured cars began to emerge around the turn of the century, seeing their first military use in 1916 during the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa. Whe...
Over the last 150 years, gun designers have sought to transform warfare with artillery of superlative range and power, from William Armstrong’s 19th-century “monster guns”...
The little-known story of how the RAF and USAAF saved London from destruction at the hands of Hitler's V-1 flying bombs and V-2 missiles – by finding and bombing the hardened, h...
Fully illustrated study of the race to the Breton ports and the struggle to take them by Patton’s Third Army in the months after D-Day.One of the prime objectives for the Allies...
M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank 1993–2018
Steven J. Zaloga · ISBN 9781472831781
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti nidottu
Since the Gulf War, the Abrams tank has undergone a transformation, while fighting in conflicts across the world. Its M1A1 and M1A2 variants have seen great improvements made to...
German Guided Missiles of World War II
Steven J. Zaloga · ISBN 9781472831798
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti nidottu
Although not as well-known as the V-1 buzz bomb and the V-2 missile, the first German missiles to see combat were anti-ship missiles, the Henschel Hs.293 guided missile and the...
Operation Tidal Wave was one of the boldest and most controversial air raids by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF).At the time, the Romanian Ploesti oil fields produced a...
The SU-76 assault gun was the second most widely manufactured Soviet armoured fighting vehicle of World War II, out-numbered only by the legendary T-34. Inspired in part by the...
In the summer of 1944, across the battlefields of Normandy, US tanks were confronted with a dangerous challenge: the mobile and deadly Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck anti-tank we...
In the summer of 1944, the Red Army staged a massive armoured assault up the Karelian Isthmus with the intent of eliminating any remaining German and Finnish forces facing the L...
Following the successful landings in Normandy on D-Day and consolidation during Operation Cobra, the Wehrmacht was ordered to begin a counter-offensive named Operation Lüttich....
Published to coincide with the centenary of the campaign, this highly illustrated book from Steven Zaloga explores a David and Goliath conflict which saw the survival of the new...
Tanks in the Battle of the Bulge
Steven J. Zaloga · ISBN 9781472839220
Julkaistu 2020 Kieli englanti nidottu
The Battle of the Bulge raises many questions which, until now, have not been adequately answered: How did the major tank types perform during the battle? What were the specific...
American Guided Missiles of World War II
Steven J. Zaloga · ISBN 9781472839268
Julkaistu 2020 Kieli englanti nidottu
World War II was a significant period of development for American missile programs, during which time the US built pioneering examples of guided weapons systems. However, whilst...
The ‘Soixantequinze’, France’s legendary 75mm Modele 1897, was the first modern field gun, pioneering several critical innovations in field artillery designs, including a fast...
German Tanks in Normandy 1944
Steven J. Zaloga · ISBN 9781472843203
Julkaistu 2021 Kieli englanti nidottu
A new study of the German Panzer forces that stood between the Allies' D-Day beachhead and victory in World War II – how they compared, how they were organized, and how they fou...