BOOK REVIEW - The Vietnam War: A Military History
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An award-winning US Marine Corps armor historian's account of the role of US and Japanese tanks on Iwo Jima. 48 pages, all inclusive, with tables, colour plates and profiles, first person accounts, and new photographs of this lynchpin battle in the Pacifi...
Here I try to do justice to an offering from Tankograd that is not the usual fair. KV Soviet Heavy Tanks The soviet tank that paved the road to victory, protptypes-pre-series-KV-1-KV-2 and the German KWI/KWII Beute Panzer captured tanks.
MMP Books Tank Plans CHALLENGER 1 MAIN BATTLE TANK No. 2
This review will cover two titles in the Pen & Sword "Images of war" series, 1 'Rommel's ghost division, Victory in the west, and 2 ' Rommel's ghost division, dash to the Channel - 1940', because the two are to all intents and purposes one book such are t...
WW2 Vehicles Through the Lens is a new series of photographic albums presenting military and civilian vehicles used by the military during World War Two. Each book will have six-eight parts, each dealing with a different subject featuring mostly previousl...
Crusader vs M13/40 North Africa 1941–42 is a new title from Osprey Publishing that compares and contrasts those two main tanks, with text supported with colour illustrations, technical drawings, battlescene artworks, maps and photographs.
In Panzer-Rgt./Abt.18 on the battlefield, Tom Cockle looks at this German unit and their vehicles. Many types of vehicles will appear in this book but the key role was played by the Tauchpanzers. The hardcover, landscape formatted book’s brief introductio...
This illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the 16th century. Men-at-arms series #552. 48 pages, 8 colour artwork plates; black & white photographs and illustrations, wr...
In this book, the two sides' objectives, weapons and equipment and fighting styles are assessed and compared in the context of three featured battles: Carnuntum (170), where a Roman legion was vanquished and Italy invaded; the 'Battle on the Ice' (172), w...
A fully illustrated new assessment of the German tank force that won its greatest victory in France during 1940. The German conquest of France in 1940 was arguably the Wehrmacht's greatest military achievement, conquering France in several weeks after hav...
This is a review by Randy L Harvey of Dettingen 1743 – Miracle on the Main by author Michael McNally and illustrator Seán Ó’Brógáin with series editor Marcus Cowper.
THE GERMAN INFANTRYMAN ON THE EASTERN FRONT is a recent release by CASEMATE PUBLISHERS. Part of their Casemate Illustrated series, the book examines training, uniforms and equipment, plus tactics, logistics and life in the field.
M60 TANK: US COLD WAR MBT is a recent title from DAVID DOYLE, part of Schiffer Publishing’s series "Legends of Warfare (Ground)." This pictorial book brings us the history of this tank from the M60 through the M60A3, and derivatives.
This is a book review by Randy L Harvey of Sniping Rifles in World War I from Osprey Publishing by author Martin Pegler and illustrators Adam Hook and Alan Gilliland.
This is a book review by Randy L Harvey of Ia Drang 1965 - The Struggle for Vietnam's Pleiku Province by authors J. P. Harris and J. Kenneth Eward and illustrator Edouard A Groult with series editor Marcus Cowper.
This is a review by Randy L Harvey of Combat: British Rifleman versus French Skirmisher, Peninsula War and Waterloo 1808-15 from Osprey Publishing by author David Greentree and illustrator Adam Hook.