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Superguns 1854-1991 - Extreme Artillery from the Paris Gun and the V-3 to Iraq's Project Babylon by Steven J. Zaloga
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
Ever since the mid-19th Century, national militaries have sought to create monster artillery pieces, designed to shatter armies, cities, and fortresses and their morale. Starting with William Armstrong's "Monster Gun" Superguns will then take a look at the Wilhelm Gun that bombarded Paris in World War I ...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 in the Easter Offensive 1972 - The Vietnam War's Great Conventional Clash by William E. Hiestand; Irene Cano Rodríguez (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
This study explains how the armies of North and South Vietnam, newly equipped with the most modern Soviet and US tanks and weaponry, fought the decisive armored battles of the Easter Offensive.Wearied by years of fighting against Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese regulars, the United States had a ...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
Technicals - Non-Standard Tactical Vehicles from the Toyota War to Modern Special Forces by Leigh Neville; Peter Dennis (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
Over the last 30 years, the "technical" or armed pick-up truck has become arguably the most ubiquitous military land vehicle of modern warfare. Harking back to the armed Jeeps and Chevrolet trucks of the SAS and Long Range Desert Group in North Africa in World War II, the world's first insurgent techni ...Show more
The Matilda Infantry Tank 1938-1945 by David Fletcher
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The Matilda was the principal British infantry tank in the early years of World War II. It served with the BEF in France and later in North Africa, where it earned the title ‘Queen of the Desert’. Outclassed by increasingly powerful German anti-tank weapons, it still remained a power in the South-East P ...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
Tiger 1 Heavy Tank 1942-45 by Hilary Doyle; Tom Jentz; Peter Sarson (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
Probably the most famous tank of the World War II, the Tiger I was originally conceived in 1941 in response to the German Army's experience in fighting British tanks and anti-tank guns in Western Europe and the North African desert. Following the invasion of Russia, the appearance of the Soviet T-34 and ...Show more
US Fast Battleships 1938-91 - The Iowa Class by Lawrence Burr; Tony Bryan (Illustrator); Peter Bull (Illustrator)
Category: Dictionaries | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
In 1938, the United States abandoned the constraints imposed by the Washington Teaty and began work on a new class of super-battleships. This book covers the design, construction, and employment of the four Iowa-class battleships, the largest in the American fleet. During World War II, they served as gu ...Show more