Tag: Tanks

Free Download Steven J. Zaloga, Michael Green – US Battle Tanks Today
Arms and Armour Press | 1984 | ISBN: 0853686270 | English | 76 pages | PDF | 81.34 MB
Tanks Illustrated No.8

Free Download Chris Ellis – Tanks of World War 2: 500 Full-Color Illustrations
Octopus Books | 1981 | ISBN: 0706412885 | English | 216 pages | PDF | 166.61 MB
Describes the forty most important tanks and fighting vehicles of World War II, focusing on history, technical specifications, and tactical performance.

Free Download M551 Sheridan: US Airmobile Tanks 1941-2001 (New Vanguard) by Steven J. Zaloga, Tony Bryan
English | March 24, 2009 | ISBN: 1846033918 | 48 pages | MOBI | 9.44 Mb
One of the weaknesses of airmobile forces has always been their vulnerability to enemy armor. Since the 1940s, there have been numerous schemes to field light tanks that could be deployed by parachute or other methods to reinforce paratroopers and other airmobile forces. This book tells the story of the US experience with airmobile tanks, starting with efforts in World War II, notably the M22 Locust airmobile tank. Although not used in combat by the US Army, it was used during Operation Varsity in 1945 by British airborne forces and ended up supporting US paratroopers during this mission on the Rhine river. The book then turns to post-war efforts such as the unique T-92 airborne tank, designed for paratroop drop.

Free Download US Airborne Tanks, 1939-1945 by Charles C Roberts Jr
English | March 23, 2021 | ISBN: 1526785021 | 208 pages | EPUB | 21 Mb
This book explores the design and deployment of American airborne tanks from the earliest concepts to their actual use.

Free Download The History of Tanks by Simon Forty
English | September 22, 2014 | ISBN: 1909768936 | 284 pages | PDF | 5.69 Mb
The tank was born to break the deadlock of World War I’s Western Front, where trench-based defence in depth, barbed wire, machine guns and artillery, led to immense loss of life. Initially dogged by mechanical unreliability and early misuse, post-First World War development of technology and tactics saw the Germans open World War II with the devastating Blitzkrieg in which armoured divisions led the way. Tanks dominated the battlefields’ of World War II and have continued to develop, reaching their peak with the so called "Main battle tanks": of the biggest military-industrial the US Abrams, German Leopard, British Challenger, Israeli Merkava and Russian T90.Today, in a world of asymmetric warfare, tanks may dominate the battlefield, but infantry rocket weapons and anti-tank helicopters have evened things up and ensure that tanks must develop further to meet changing threats. In The History of Tanks about the changing face of tank warfare through the 50 most important, iconic vehicles from 1914 to today.

Free Download World of Tanks – The SU-152 and Related Vehicles by Yuri Igorevich Pasholok, Dana Lombardy, Christopher Parker
English | April 1, 2020 | ISBN: 194016902X | 272 pages | PDF | 14 Mb
In 2012, the company that created World of Tanks, the phenomenal world-wide massive, multi-player online game, started publishing a series of books in Russian that utilized Soviet documents and archival materials that had never before been seen by outsiders or published in any language about the design, procurement, development, manufacturing, and combat employment of Soviet armored fighting vehicles (AFVs) during World War Two (the Great Patriotic War to Russians). Now these remarkable books are being published in English with the obvious aphorism The Russian View. Hundreds of photos, illustrations, tables, and diagrams tell the story about the development of the SU-152 tank-killer.

Free Download Alejandra Salas-Porras, Georgina Murray, "Think Tanks and Global Politics: Key Spaces in the Structure of Power"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1137574933 | PDF | pages: 279 | 3.0 mb
This text provides a cutting edge analysis of the increasingly central role think tanks play in societies worldwide. Examining their control of global resources both in economic and political policy fields and their inroads into structures of power, it addresses key questions. How have think thanks reached these positions of power? Has the northern core produced neoliberal clones that have hydra-like colonised the globe? Who funds and controls these think tanks and for what purpose? How is policy making knowledge created? How are new policy ideas propagated and validated? How do think tanks become dominant sources of knowledge in public spheres including the media? Exploring the dynamics of think tank networks in specific regions and countries, this book considers the coalitions they generate to advance the social purpose they endorse and, in particular, the spaces they occupy in the structures and fields of power at the national, regional and global level.

Free Download M551 Sheridan: US Airmobile Tanks 1941-2001 (New Vanguard) by Steven J. Zaloga
English | October 20th, 2011 | ISBN: 1846033918 | 48 pages | True EPUB | 8.61 MB
One of the weaknesses of airmobile forces has always been their vulnerability to enemy armor. Since the 1940s, there have been numerous schemes to field light tanks that could be deployed by parachute or other methods to reinforce paratroopers and other airmobile forces. This book tells the story of the US experience with airmobile tanks, starting with efforts in World War II, notably the M22 Locust airmobile tank. Although not used in combat by the US Army, it was used during Operation Varsity in 1945 by British airborne forces and ended up supporting US paratroopers during this mission on the Rhine river. The book then turns to post-war efforts such as the unique T-92 airborne tank, designed for paratroop drop.

Free Download British Battle Tanks: Post-war Tanks 1946-2016 by Simon Dunstan
English | January 23rd, 2020 | ISBN: 1472833368 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 187.95 MB
This book, the last in a four-part series on British Battle Tanks covering the whole history of British armoured warfare, concentrates on those vehicles that have served following the end of World War II up to the present day.

Free Download Christopher F. Foss – The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World’s Tanks and Fighting Vehicles
Salamander Books | 1977 | ISBN: 0861010035 | English | 251 pages | PDF | 235.5 MB
A technical directory of major combat vehicles since World War I. Features more than 220 of the most significant combat vehicles including Austrian, Belgium, Brazilian, British, Canadian, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, South African, Soviet, Swedish, Swiss and US types.