Tag: Armored

Free Download Michael E. Haskew – Postwar Armored Fighting Vehicles: 1945-Present (The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide)
Amber Books | 2010 | ISBN: 1907446281 | English | 200 pages | PDF | 147.52 MB
The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Postwar Armored Fighting Vehicles 1945 Present offers a highly illustrated guide to the world s main armored units and their fighting vehicles used since the end of World War II. This compact volume includes sample unit structures and orders of battle from divisional to corps and army level, providing an organizational context for key wars fought since 1945. Organized chronologically, the book offers a comprehensive survey of units and their armored fighting vehicles by war, including Korea, Vietnam, the Arab Israeli conflicts, Indo-Pakistan wars, the Cold War in Europe, the Yugoslav civil war, the Iraq wars and Afghanistan. All the major and many minor tanks are featured, with variations of the T-72, M1 Abrams and Centurion, for example, as well as personnel carriers, engineering and mine-clearing vehicles. Lesser known models such as armored cars, halftracks, trucks and amphibious vehicles combine to make this a rounded compendium of modern armored fighting vehicles. Packed with more than 200 full-color artworks and photographs with exhaustive specifications, The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Postwar Armored Fighting Vehicles 1945 Present is a key reference guide for military modelers and vehicle enthusiasts.REVIEWS concise and well illustrated detailed full color drawings that depict camouflage patterns and provide key specifications such as the crew size, weight, dimensions, engine details, speed, and armament for each vehicle. Organizational charts for selected armored units are also included as well as dozens of photographs (many of them color) of various AFVs with in action or on parade.

Free Download Other Axis & Allied Armored Fighting Vehicles: World War II AFV Plans
by George Bradford
English | 2023 | ASIN: B006QT115M | 112 Pages | ePUB | 22.4 MB

Free Download Jack Livesey – Modern Armored Fighting Vehicles: From 1946 to the Present Day
Southwater | 2008 | ISBN: 1844764621 | English | 130 pages | PDF | 116.32 MB
This highly illustrated reference book opens with a history of armored fighting vehicles, covering the 60-year period from the start of the Cold War to the present day. The first section focuses on the vehicles that were developed when nuclear and chemical weapons were first introduced on the battlefield. Following this, a substantial A to Z guide to AFVs provides details about each vehicle, all entries being accompanied by wartime or museum photographs, mostly in color. From the Humber Pig to the Rooikat Armoured Car, the most important AFVs from around the world are described and illustrated.

Free Download George R. Bradford – German Early War Armored Fighting Vehicles ( World War II AFV Plans)
Stackpole Books | 2007 | ISBN: 0811733416 | English | 102 pages | PDF | 131.88 MB
This title contains fine scale drawings of German AFVs, covering the time period of the Blitzkrieg across Europe through the greatest tank battle in history, Kursk. Multiple angles provide a level of detail for the 8-wheeled Armoured Car, Sd. Kfz. Panzer I Tank, Sd. Kfz. Panzer II Tank, Sd. Kfz. Panzer 35 T Tank, Sd. Kfz. Panzer IIIm Sd. Kfz. Armored Halftrack, and dozens more.

Free Download Ian Marshall – Armored Ships: The Ships, Their Settings, and the Ascendancy That They Sustained for 80 Years
Howell Press | 1990 | ISBN: 0943231345 | English | 188 pages | PDF | 116.98 MB
An illustrated history of the armored ship which considers the captains and crews of the vessels, and gives accounts of the battles they fought.

Free Download George R.Bradford – Allied Armored Fighting Vehicles 1:72 Scale (World War II AFV Plans)
Stackpole Books | 2009 | ISBN: 0811735702 | English | 62 pages | PDF | 129.71 MB
This title is filled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from the U.S., Britain, Canada, and USSR, including: M4 Sherman medium tank (U.S.), T1E3 Aunt Jemima mine exploder (U.S.), M18 Hellcat tank destroyer (U.S.), Mk VI Crusader cruiser tank (Britain), Crocodile flamethrower (Britain), Ram I cruiser tank (Canada), T-34 medium tank (USSR), SU-100 tank destroyer (USSR), and dozens more.

Free Download J. Ted Hartman, "Tank Driver: With the 11th Armored from the Battle of the Bulge to VE Day"
English | 2003 | pages: 163 | ISBN: 0253014972, 0253342112, ASIN: B00BIP0LHI | EPUB | 3,3 mb
Tank Driver is the story of a young man’s combat initiation in World War II. Based on letters home, the sparse narrative has the immediacy of on-the-spot reporting. Ted Hartman was a teenager when he was sent overseas to drive a Sherman tank into combat to face the desperate German counterattack known as the Battle of the Bulge. Hartman gives a riveting account of the shifting tides of battle and the final Allied breakout. He tells about the concentration camps, the spectacle of the defeated Germans, and the dramatic encounter with Russian soldiers in Austria that marked combat’s end. This is a vivid, personal account of some of the most dramatic fighting of World War II.

Free Download Alexander Deryabin, Andrey Aksenov, "Armored Units of the Russian Civil War: White and Allied"
English | 2003 | pages: 51 | ISBN: 1841765449 | PDF | 12,9 mb
One of the most important conflicts of the 20th century, the Russian Civil War was the struggle that led to the formation of the Soviet Union. Following the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government on 7 November 1917, the All-Russian Congress of Soviets met and handed over power to the Soviet Council of People’s Commissars. Immediately forces began to assemble in opposition to the Bolshevik regime, and these became known as the Whites. This title examines the armour that they had at their disposal throughout the course of the war. It was a varied collection including British and French vehicles and, perhaps most famously, the armoured trains that enabled the Whites to dominate much of Siberia.

Free Download Steven J. Zaloga, "US Armored Units in the North Africa and Italian Campaigns 1942-45"
English | 2006 | pages: 100 | ISBN: 1841769665 | PDF | 35,8 mb
The Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) saw the first operational deployment of US armoured divisions in World War II, and the experience proved chastening for the 1st Armored Division when it suffered defeat at the hands of Rommel’s Afrika Korps at the battle of Kasserine Pass. This title covers the organization of these early US armored divisions, as well as the independent tank and tank destroyer battalions that accompanied them. It details the evolution if US armoured warfare tactics and doctrine, learned from the difficult experiences of North Africa, and illustrates how they were used elsewhere in the MTO, particularly in the Italian Peninsula.