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Military History - Land Vehicles & Weapons - General Section
Land Vehicles & Weapons - General Section
Includes Tanks, AFVs, Artillery, self-propelled & rail-borne guns, plus many other forms of military transportation
Listed by Author & Title - 10 Titles per page
A PHOTO HISTORY OF TANKS IN TWO WORLD WARS
by George Forty

Includes the British Heavy and Medium tanks, French Heavy and Light as well as US, Italian and German tanks in WWI. The inter-war developments include Polish, Japanese and Swedish tanks WWII includes the Allied and Axis types, also Allied types in Russian and Chinese service, French tanks, and captured tanks

1984, Blandford Press, , 0713712163,< P-01>,192pp, 500 photos, large format, Good in dw, ,
Subject...Land Vehicles & Weapons - General
Web No. 19071-01..............................£10.00 

TANK ACES
by George Forty

From Blitzkrieg to the Gulf War. The stories of a world-wide selection of more than 25 aces drawn from the armies of the UK, USA, Nazi Germany, USSR, Poland Israel, India and Pakistan. Covering conflicts from WW II through to the Korean, Vietnamese, Arab-Israeli, Indo-Pakistan and Gulf Wars and including tank aces like Col Creighton Abrams (USA), Lt Col Avigdor Kahalani (Israel), Oberst 'Panzer' Schulst (Germany) And Maj Gen Patrick Cordingly (UK).

1997, Sutton Publishing, , 0750914475,< P-01>,192pp, 130 b/w illus, vg in dw, ,
Subject...Land Vehicles & Weapons - General
Web No. 27165-01..............................£8.00 

TANK ACTION
by George Forty

Tank fighting from 1916 with the Mk 1, to the Challenger in the Gulf War. The author looks at 42 individual low-level battles spanning eighty years of armoured warfare. The first tank-versus-tank engagement at Villers-Bretonneux in 1918, Sgt Waterhouse and his M3 General Lee at Kohima, Wittmann's battle with the advance guard of the British 7th Armoured Division at Villers-Bocage and on to the Gulf War. A comprehensive view of tank warfare seen from the perspective of the tank crews themselves.

1996, Sutton Publishing, , 0862880440,< P-01>,296pp, 220 photos & drawings, maps., Fine in d/w, ,
Subject...Land Vehicles & Weapons - General
Web No. 22722-03..............................£14.00 

TANK COMMANDERS: KNIGHTS OF THE MODERN AGE
by Lieutenant-Colonel George Forty

The new soldier of the 20th Century, the tank commander developed the weapon into a potent force on the battlefields of World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, and the Gulf. The book examines the careers of such legendary figures as Elles, Rommel, Patton, Tal, Abrahams and many more. Includes appraisals of the tank generals of Britain, France, USA, Russia and Israel

2002, Caxton Editions, , 1840673230,< P-01>,200pp, 150 photos, 10 maps, New in d/w, ,
Subject...Land Vehicles & Weapons - General
Web No. 15297-01..............................£5.00 

UNITED STATES TANKS OF WORLD WAR II
by George Forty

The narrative covers all the campaigns in which American Tanks particpated. Chapters are devoted to unit organisation, early light tanks and combat cars including experimental versions, the M3 General Stuart, M22 Locust, M5, M24 General Chaffee, M3 mediums Generals Lee and Grant, M4 and M26. Also includes chapters on tank destroyers, amphibians and tracked armoured landing vehicles.

1983, Blandford Press, , 0713712147,< P-01>,160pp, 240 photos, bibliography, index, large format, vg in rubbed dw, ,
Subject...Land Vehicles & Weapons - General
Web No. 60-01..............................£10.00 

ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES OF THE WORLD
by Christopher Foss

The Armoured Fighting Vehicles and Tanks of some twenty four nations. Fully revised and, in effect, a different book from the first (1971) edition. The data is metric, the tables updated, and all the photographs were new.

1974, Ian Allan, New edition, 0711005621,< P-01>,192pp, 250 photos & ills., Good in dw, ,
Subject...Land Vehicles & Weapons - General
Web No. 23321-02..............................£9.00 

ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES OF THE WORLD
by Christopher Foss

The Tanks and other AFVs of some 24 nations. Includes one of the earliest studies of the then controversial Soviet MBT-70.

1971, Ian Allan, 1st edition, 0711002177,< P-01>,192pp, 250 photos, ills, Good in dw, ,
Subject...Land Vehicles & Weapons - General
Web No. 23321-01..............................£8.00 

ARTILLERY OF THE WORLD
by Christopher F Foss

A pictorial study of the artillery in service with, or under development by 17 nations, plus a section on international projects, seen from the perspective of the mid 1970s. Includes field artillery, self-propelled and towed artillery, anti-tank and anti-aircraft artillery, and mortars, plus details of radars, fire control systems, laser range finders and targeting computers.

1974, Ian Allan, 1st edition, 0711005052,< P-01>,192pp, 221 photos., g in dw, ,
Subject...Land Vehicles & Weapons - General
Web No. 7930-01..............................£6.00 

JANE'S WORLD ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES
by Christopher F Foss

The tanks, reconnaissance vehicles, armoured personnel carriers, self-propelled artillery, mobile anti-aircraft systems and other armoured vehicles in service with the world's armies and also those in development and due to enter service in the 1980s.

1976, Macdonald & Janes, , 0354010220 ,< P-01>,437pp, 480 photos, dw wn, page edges browning.Good, ,
Subject...Land Vehicles & Weapons - General
Web No. 16360-01..............................£7.00 

MILITARY VEHICLES OF THE WORLD
by Christopher Foss

The military trucks, prime movers, light and cross country vehicles, tankers, tractors, snow vehicles and tracked cargo carriers of the armies of some 24 countries in the late 1970s.

1978, Ian Allan, , 0711008809,< P-01>,192pp, numerous photos, index, g/vg in dw, ,
Subject...Land Vehicles & Weapons - General
Web No. 17780-01..............................£8.00 

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