Tag: Tanks

Free Download Christopher F. Foss – The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World’s Tanks and Fighting Vehicles
Salamander Books | 1977 | ISBN: 0861010035 | English | 251 pages | PDF | 235.5 MB
A technical directory of major combat vehicles since World War I. Features more than 220 of the most significant combat vehicles including Austrian, Belgium, Brazilian, British, Canadian, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, South African, Soviet, Swedish, Swiss and US types.

Free Download Steven J. Zaloga – Patton’s Tanks
Arms and Armour Press | 1984 | ISBN: 0853686718 | English | 66 pages | PDF | 105.21 MB
Tanks Illustrated No.11

Free Download Bryan Perrett – Allied Tanks North Africa: World War Two
Arms and Armour Press | 1986 | ISBN: 0853687757 | English | 68 pages | PDF | 75.61 MB
Tanks Illustrated No.21

Free Download Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1975-90
by Zaloga, Steven J.;Rodríguez, Felipe;, Felipe Rodríguez
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1472853806 | 49 pages | True PDF EPUB | 29.84 MB

Free Download World of Tanks – The SU-152 and Related Vehicles by Yuri Igorevich Pasholok, Dana Lombardy, Christopher Parker
English | April 1, 2020 | ISBN: 194016902X | 272 pages | EPUB | 13 Mb
In 2012, the company that created World of Tanks, the phenomenal world-wide massive, multi-player online game, started publishing a series of books in Russian that utilized Soviet documents and archival materials that had never before been seen by outsiders or published in any language about the design, procurement, development, manufacturing, and combat employment of Soviet armored fighting vehicles (AFVs) during World War Two (the Great Patriotic War to Russians). Now these remarkable books are being published in English with the obvious aphorism The Russian View. Hundreds of photos, illustrations, tables, and diagrams tell the story about the development of the SU-152 tank-killer.

Free Download Jerry Scutts, "Modelling Postwar Tanks"
English | 2000 | pages: 66 | ISBN: 1841761389 | PDF | 18,4 mb
Since WWII tanks have proved themselves in every conflict – Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Gulf, the Arab-Israeli wars. This book concentrates on how to model accurately not just postwar technical developments but also changing tactical uses.

Free Download Steven J. Zaloga, Henry Morshead, "US Amphibious Tanks of World War II"
English | 2012 | pages: 50 | ISBN: 1849086362 | PDF | 3,4 mb
The advent of combined arms operations in World War II created the need for specialized armored vehicles. In the case of amphibious attacks, the issue arose of how best to land tanks on a beach. Although a variety of specialized landing craft were developed, the Dieppe raid in 1942 encouraged the development of tanks that could be deployed from further off-shore to limit the vulnerability of the LCT craft. The deep-wading equipment that they developed was first used during Operation Husky on Sicily in July 1943, and subsequently for Operations Avalanche (Salerno, September 1943), Shingle (Anzio, January 1944) and Overlord (Normandy, June 1944). The US-manufactured DD tanks were used during Overlord by both US and British forces, and again in 1945 during the Rhine crossings. Initially, developments in the Pacific Theater were separate from those in Europe. The Marines learned from the Tarawa landings in 1943 that unprepared tanks could not be safely landed even in shallow water. DD tanks were never seriously considered for the Pacific, so other solutions were sought. A detailed study of specialized US amphibious tanks, this is a title that will appeal to those interested in both Pacific and European Theaters, modellers and collectors.

Free Download Allied Tanks at El Alamein 1942 by William E. Hiestand
English | July 20, 2023 | ISBN: 1472858026 | eISBN: 9781472858023 | 51 Pages | EPUB | 12.5 MB
Examines Eighth Army’s 1,000-strong tank force – rebuilt, reorganized, and equipped with brand-new Sherman and Churchill tanks – that secured victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein.

Free Download Japanese Tanks and Armoured Warfare 1932-1945: A Military and Political History
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1781558108 | 201 Pages | EPUB (True) | 2 MB
The popular image of the Japanese tanks which faced the markedly superior tanks fielded by the Allies during the Second World War is one of poorly armed and armoured Lilliputian tin cans which failed to make any impression upon the battlefield. In this absorbing new history, David McCormack looks beyond widely held and unchallenged misconceptions to create a new narrative in which Japan’s rightful place as a leading innovator in tank design and doctrine is restored. Why did Japan produce tanks in such limited numbers? What contribution did Japanese tanks make to the war effort? Why did it take Japan so long to develop heavier tanks capable of meeting the Allies on more equal terms? Drawing from primary and secondary sources, the author’s meticulous research provides the reader with an objective appraisal of both the successes and failures of the Empire of the Sun’s tank forces.

Free Download Soviet Tanks in Manchuria 1945: The Red Army’s ruthless last Blitzkrieg of World War II by William E. Hiestand, Henry Morshead, Irene Cano Rodríguez
English | February 28, 2023 | ISBN: 1472853725 | 48 pages | MOBI | 15 Mb
A new illustrated study of the devastating, but little-known, Soviet armored blitzkrieg against the Japanese in the last weeks of World War II, and how it influenced Soviet tank doctrine as the Cold War dawned.