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Author |
: Steven Zaloga |
Publisher |
: Stackpole Books |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2015-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811714372 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811714373 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Armored Champion by : Steven Zaloga
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 |
: Steven Zaloga |
Publisher |
: Stackpole Books |
Total Pages |
: 701 |
Release |
: 2015-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811761130 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811761134 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Armored Champion by : Steven Zaloga
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 |
: Steven J. Zaloga |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 49 |
Release |
: 2011-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781846038655 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1846038650 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis T-80 Standard Tank by : Steven J. Zaloga
The history of the little-known yet controversial T-80 and its subsequent variants. The Soviet T-80 Standard Tank was the last tank fielded before the Soviet collapse, and the most controversial. Despite having the most sophisticated fire controls and multi-layer armor ever fielded on a Soviet tank, its turbine power plant (rather than a conventional diesel) remained a source of considerable trouble throughout its career. Steven J Zaloga charts the little-known history of the T-80, covering the initial construction, through the development to the subsequent variants, the T-84 and Russia's enigmatic “Black Eagle Tank.” Accompanying detailed cut-away artwork illustrates the unusual design features that made the T-80 so controversial.
Author |
: Steven J. Zaloga |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 91 |
Release |
: 2011-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781780961484 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1780961480 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis T-80 Standard Tank by : Steven J. Zaloga
The history of the little-known yet controversial T-80 and its subsequent variants. The Soviet T-80 Standard Tank was the last tank fielded before the Soviet collapse, and the most controversial. Despite having the most sophisticated fire controls and multi-layer armor ever fielded on a Soviet tank, its turbine power plant (rather than a conventional diesel) remained a source of considerable trouble throughout its career. Steven J Zaloga charts the little-known history of the T-80, covering the initial construction, through the development to the subsequent variants, the T-84 and Russia's enigmatic “Black Eagle Tank.” Accompanying detailed cut-away artwork illustrates the unusual design features that made the T-80 so controversial.
Author |
: Steven Zaloga |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 513 |
Release |
: 2022-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811772143 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811772144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Armored Attack 1944 by : Steven Zaloga
This classic, now available in paperback, includes all varieties of American armor in Europe from D-Day, to Normandy, to southern France, the Siegfried Line, the push to the Rhine, and finally, the Battle of the Bulge. Shermans, Hellcats, and many more American and German tanks are covered in nearly 1200 photos along with Steven Zaloga’s expert captions. Perfect for modelers and World War II enthusiasts.
Author |
: Steve Zaloga |
Publisher |
: Stackpole Books |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811704243 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811704246 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Armored Thunderbolt by : Steve Zaloga
• Hundreds of photos, including many never published before with riveting accounts of armored warfare in World War II • Compares the Sherman to other tanks, including the Panther and Tiger • Author is a world-renowned expert on the Sherman tank and American armor Some tank crews referred to the American M4 Sherman tank as a "death trap." Others, like Gen. George Patton, believed that the Sherman helped win World War II. So which was it: death trap or war winner? Armor expert Steven Zaloga answers that question by recounting the Sherman's combat history. Focusing on Northwest Europe (but also including a chapter on the Pacific), Zaloga follows the Sherman into action on D-Day, among the Normandy hedgerows, during Patton's race across France, in the great tank battle at Arracourt in September 1944, at the Battle of the Bulge, across the Rhine, and in the Ruhr pocket in 1945.
Author |
: S. M. Stirling |
Publisher |
: Ace |
Total Pages |
: 642 |
Release |
: 2016-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780451467577 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0451467574 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Change by : S. M. Stirling
""[A] vivid portrait of a world gone insane,"* S. M. Stirling's New York Times bestselling Novels of the Change have depicted a vivid, utterly persuasive, and absorbingly unpredictable postapocalyptic wasteland in which all modern technology has been left in ashes, forcing humankind to rebuild an unknowable new world in the wake of unimaginable--and deliberate--chaos. Now, in this startling new anthology, S. M. Stirling invites the most fertile minds in science fiction to join him in expanding his rich Emberverse canvas. Here are inventive new perspectives on the cultures, the survivors, and the battles arising across the years and across the globe following the Change. In his all-new story "Hot Night at the Hopping Toad," Stirling returns to his own continuing saga of the High Kingdom of Montival. In the accompanying stories are fortune seekers, voyagers, and dangers--from the ruins of Sydney to the Republic of Fargo and Northern Alberta to Venetian and Greek galleys clashing in the Mediterranean. These new adventures revisit beloved people and places from Stirling's fantastic universe, introduce us to new ones, and deliver endlessly fascinating challenges to conquer, all while unfolding in a "postapocalyptic landscape that illuminates both the best and the worst of which our species is capable,"** "a world you can see, feel, and touch." ***"--
Author |
: Daniel Sandoval |
Publisher |
: Morgan Online Media |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2015-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780985808167 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0985808160 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dark Exile by : Daniel Sandoval
The crew members of the Fleet Explorer Clarion are each extraordinary, so brilliant that their contributions are coveted by the very civilization that produced them. The medical officer suspects the mission is a ruse to discard them all into the unyielding darkness of uncharted space. And if the deep black doesn’t destroy them, their survival is threatened by a tyrannical captain. By a catastrophic accident, they are marooned just out of reach of a virgin world. With a stowaway who also helped elevate the character of their sentience, they face an adversary as deadly as unquestioning faith and as promising as genuine love.
Author |
: Belton Y. Cooper |
Publisher |
: Presidio Press |
Total Pages |
: 394 |
Release |
: 2007-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307415004 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307415007 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Death Traps by : Belton Y. Cooper
“An important contribution to the history of World War II . . . I have never before been able to learn so much about maintenance methods of an armored division, with precise details that underline the importance of the work, along with descriptions of how the job was done.”—Russell F. Weigley, author of Eisenhower’s Lieutenants “Cooper saw more of the war than most junior officers, and he writes about it better than almost anyone. . . . His stories are vivid, enlightening, full of life—and of pain, sorrow, horror, and triumph.”—Stephen E. Ambrose, from his Foreword “In a down-to-earth style, Death Traps tells the compelling story of one man’s assignment to the famous 3rd Armored Division that spearheaded the American advance from Normandy into Germany. Cooper served as an ordnance officer with the forward elements and was responsible for coordinating the recovery and repair of damaged American tanks. This was a dangerous job that often required him to travel alone through enemy territory, and the author recalls his service with pride, downplaying his role in the vast effort that kept the American forces well equipped and supplied. . . . [Readers] will be left with an indelible impression of the importance of the support troops and how dependent combat forces were on them.”—Library Journal “As an alumnus of the 3rd, I eagerly awaited this book’s coming out since I heard of its release . . . and the wait and the book have both been worth it. . . . Cooper is a very polished writer, and the book is very readable. But there is a certain quality of ‘you are there’ many other memoirs do not seem to have. . . . Nothing in recent times—ridgerunning in Korea, firebases in Vietnam, or even the one hundred hours of Desert Storm—pressed the ingenuity and resolve of American troops . . . like WWII. This book lays it out better than any other recent effort, and should be part of the library of any contemporary warrior.”—Stephen Sewell, Armor Magazine “Cooper’s writing and recall of harrowing events is superb and engrossing. Highly recommended.”—Robert A. Lynn, The Stars and Stripes “This detailed story will become a classic of WWII history and required reading for anyone interested in armored warfare.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[Death Traps] fills a critical gap in WWII literature. . . . It’s a truly unique and valuable work.”—G.I. Journal
Author |
: Nick Davis |
Publisher |
: NickDavis |
Total Pages |
: 37 |
Release |
: 2011-04-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781458171092 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1458171094 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wonder Tales Volume One by : Nick Davis
Once Upon a Time… What a magical phrase that opens up a story to wonder and adventure. The Wonder Tales Volume One is a collection of all ages fantastical fables that are set in a fantasy world of Once Upon a Time, in a Land Far, Far Away known as the Ninth Kingdom. It is a world of magic, of wonder, of vain Kings, noble Heroes, beautiful Princesses, Pirates, evil Witches, scary Monsters and one very unique and smart talking Horse… The Wonder Tales Volume One, The Archer, the Horse and Other Tales collects together the first six Wonder Tales. The Archer, the Horse and the Princess The Archer, the Horse and the Golden Braid The Daughter of Frost The Archer and the Flying Pirate Ship The Girl and the Troll The Archer, the Horse and the Forgotten Quest Bonus story – I Am Wolf Read these tales to your children, or you can let them explore the wonder of reading for themselves with these magical yarns of pure imagination.