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T-54 and T-55 Main Battle Tanks 1958-2004 by Steven J. Zaloga
Category: Military
The T-54 and T-55 tanks are the most widely manufactured tanks of all time. They have become ubiquitous to wars around the globe since the 1950s, starting with Hungary in 1956, and including the the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967, 1973 and 1982, the Vietnam war of 1967-75, the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88, the A ...Show more
Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1946-60: Early Cold War armor in Central Europe by Steven J. Zaloga
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
A study of the Soviet and NATO armored forces that faced each other off in Central Europe in the early Cold War, and how their technology, tactics, and doctrine were all rapidly developed. For 45 years, the most disputed point in the World was the dividing line between East and West in Europe; here ...Show more
Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1960-75 by Steven J. Zaloga; Felipe Rodriguez (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
A new analysis of the technology and tanks that faced off against each other on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, during the very height of the Cold War.From the 1960s onwards, there was a generational shift in tank design and warfare with the advent of CBR (chemical, biological, radiological) protect ...Show more
Tanks in Operation Bagration 1944 - The Demolition of Army Group Center by Steven J. Zaloga; Felipe Rodriguez (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
Operation Bagration, the 1944 summer campaign on the Eastern Front, was the biggest defeat of German armed forces in World War II. Forced to make hard decisions with the invasion of France expected, German tank forces in the central Belarus sector were weak compared to the heavy concentration in norther ...Show more
Tanks in the Battle of Germany 1945 - Eastern Front by Steven J. Zaloga; Felipe Rodriguez (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The final months of World War II on the Eastern Front saw the Germans fighting with exhausted armored divisions, albeit now armed with the heaviest and most advanced tanks of the war, to slow the Soviet advance. Meanwhile, the Red Army was rolling relentlessly westwards, with its own highly developed ta ...Show more
Tanks of D-Day 1944 - Armor on the Beaches of Normandy and Southern France by Steven J. Zaloga; Felipe Rodríguez (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
Allied success in invading Fortress Europe (the area of Continental Europe occupied by Nazi Germany) depended on getting armor onto the beaches as fast as possible. This book explains how the Allies developed the specialist tanks it needed, their qualities, deployment and numbers, and how they performed ...Show more
The M10 and M36 Tank Destroyers 1942-52 by Steven J. Zaloga, BA
Category: Military
This volume explores the M10 and M36 tank destroyers used between 1942 and 1952 by the Allied forces. They played a key role in the battles for Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, the crossing of the Rhine and the final defeat of Germany, and continued to serve in Korea, Indochina and the Balkans.
The Oil Campaign 1944-45 - Draining the Wehrmacht's Lifeblood by Steven J. Zaloga; Edouard A. Groult (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
A new illustrated history of one of the key air campaigns of late World War II - the American effort to cripple Germany's oil production, and grind its armed forces to a halt.With retreating German forces losing their oilfields on the Eastern Front, Germany was reliant on its own facilities, particularl ...Show more
The Polish Army 1939-45 by Steven J. Zaloga
Category: Cap Link Damages SPECIALS | Series: Men-at-arms
Poland was the first of the Allied nations to succumb to German aggression in the Second World War, but by the most tortuous of routes her army managed to remain in the field through all five years of bloody fighting. Polish soldiers fought in nearly every major campaign in the European theatre, and the ...Show more
The Russian S-300 and S-400 Missile Systems by Steven J. Zaloga
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
An expert account of the development, role, and capabilities of the S-300 and S-400 air defence missile systems, key strategic weapons in Putin's Russia. Few modern missile systems have had such significance as the S-300 family. Highly regarded technically, Russia's most powerful air-defense systems ha ...Show more
US Battle Tanks 1917-1945 by Steven J. Zaloga
Category: Military
A comprehensive and detailed illustrated examination of the development and combat performance of US battle tanks from World War I to the end of World War II. In this, the first of two highly illustrated volumes examining the complete history of US Army and US Marine Corps battle tanks, Steven J. Zalog ...Show more