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Free Download Christopher Chant – World Encyclopedia of the Tank
Sutton Publishing | 2002 | ISBN: 0750931477 | English | 416 pages | PDF | 354.31 MB
One of the most potent and fascinating weapons of the twentieth century, the tank has evolved over ninety years of development. Increasingly sophisticated technology has enhanced the tank’s domination of all operational conditions, by virtue of its unparalleled combination of offensive and defensive attributes. Firepower, protection and mobility have all been improved continuously in the ceaseless struggle for battlefield supremacy. The tank has a position of unrivalled importance in twentieth-century military history. Developed originally by the British to break the deadlock of trench warfare during the First World War, the tank proved to be a devastating breakthrough weapon, achieving unprecedented results in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917. The tank’s true potential, however, was only fully appreciated by the Germans, who set in train a highly secret tank development program between the World Wars. This initiative culminated in the revolutionary concept of Blitzkrieg, a strategy based on the use of amour to punch holes in the enemy’s defenses, and was to result in the Nazi domination of continental Europe. The tank continues to be at the heart of modern strategic thinking, having proved its worth in the 1991 Gulf War. A combination of color photographs, specially-drawn artwork and technical specifications make this a definitive reference for anyone interested in the development of the tank.

Free Download Mike Steere, "Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander’s Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1611211441, 1932714472 | EPUB | pages: 312 | 2.3 mb
FINALIST FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MEMOIRS, 2009, THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS

Free Download The Biggest Tank Battles of World War II: The History of the Most Decisive Tank Encounters between the Allies and Axis (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868699009 | 2023 | 5 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 287 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Bill Caufield
The tank was first developed by the British and French during World War I as a means to break the deadlock on the Western Front. More so than any previous war, the balance of power lay with the defense, as machine guns, trenches, bunkers, barbed wire, and rapid-firing rifles all made frontal assaults on established positions prohibitively costly. In the closing months of the war, the tank partially evened up that balance, even as the war’s commanders initially proved unsure of how to use them. While it cannot be said that the tank won the war, it contributed to its end and if the fighting had continued another year, the mass production that had started in Allied countries may have proved decisive. World War II was the culmination of a quarter century of tank development, and it would also be the first major test of tanks in mobile warfare during which they had to face other tanks.

Free Download Bryan Perrett – Tank Warfare
Arms & Armour Press | 1990 | ISBN: 0853689938 | English | 168 pages | PDF | 166.61 MB
Combat Development in World War II

Free Download Terry Gander – Anti-Tank Weapons
The Crowood Press | 2000 | ISBN: 1861262590 | English | 200 pages | PDF | 145.73 MB
The arrival of tanks on the battlefields of World War I signaled a turning point in the very nature of armed conflict. While tanks have seemed increasingly invincible in the last 80-plus years, so too have weapons evolved to counter their threat. From the experimental ordnance of World War I to the high-tech armaments of present, this illustrated history tells the story of anti-tank weaponry with the help of archival and modern photography and line drawings.

Free Download Robert Forczyk, Chris Monteiro (Narrator), "Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa: Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader, 1940-41"
English | ASIN: B0CSLBQ9WS | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~13:15:00 | 375 MB
Robert Forczyk covers the development of armored warfare in North Africa from the earliest Anglo-Italian engagements in 1940 to the British victory over the German Afrikakorps in Operation Crusader in 1941.
The war in the North African desert was pure mechanized warfare, and in many respects the most technologically advanced theatre of World War II. It was also the only theatre where for three years British and Commonwealth, and later United States, troops were in constant contact with Axis forces.
World War II bestselling author Robert Forczyk explores the first half of the history of the campaign, from the initial Italian offensive and the arrival of Rommel’s Panzergruppe Afrika to the British Operation Crusader offensive that led to the relief of Tobruk. He examines the armored forces, equipment, doctrine, training, logistics and operations employed by both Allied and Axis forces throughout the period, focusing especially on the brigade and regimental level of operations.

Free Download Philip Kaplan, "Rolling Thunder: A Century of Tank Warfare"
English | 2014 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 1781592438 | EPUB | 20,7 mb
The tank is such a characteristic feature of modern warfare that its difficult to imagine a time when its presence wasn’t felt on the battlefield in some form or another. This volume, from eminent historian and author Philip Kaplan, traces the history of the vehicle from its developmental early days on the battlefields of the Great War, to modern-day uses and innovations in response to the growing demands of twenty-first century warfare.

Free Download Bryan Cooper – Tank Battles of World War I
Pen & Sword | 2014 | ISBN: 1473825628 | English | 152 pages | PDF | 51.87 MB
Failure to exploit the potential of an original idea is a recurring phenomenon in our national history. Few failures, however, can have been so costly in human life as that of our military commanders early in 1916 to appreciate that the tank was a war winning weapon. The slaughter of the Somme, Passchendaele and Ypres salient had to be endured before accepted ‘conventional’ methods were abandoned and the tank given a chance.

Free Download Tank Attack at Monte Cassino: The Cavendish Road Operation 1944 by Jeffrey Plowman
English | May 13, 2020 | ISBN: 1526764903 | 182 pages | EPUB | 16 Mb
In-depth account of the daring Allied tank attack launched along Cavendish Road during the third battle at Monte Cassino in 1944.

Free Download M24 Chaffee Light Tank 1943-85 (New Vanguard) by Steven J. Zaloga, Jim Laurier
English | June 20, 2003 | ISBN: 9781841765402 | 48 pages | MOBI | 33 Mb
The history of US light tanks during World War II is a chequered one. The Light Battalions of US Armored Divisions were initially filled with M3A1 and M5 Stuart tanks, however, on the battlefields of North Africa it was realised that these were disastrously under armoured and gunned, and a replacement, or the abandonment of light tank doctrine, was desperately needed. It wasn’t until the last few months of WWII that the M24 Chaffee came into service and it was extensively used in combat from the Battle of the Bulge to the final campaigns in Germany. This book will trace the history of this design, its combat record in World War II, its many variants, and its extensive combat record post 1945.