A Complete Illustrated Guide to Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles

A Complete Illustrated Guide to Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles
Author: George Forty
Publisher: Lorenz Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Armoured vehicles, Military
ISBN: 9780754829263

The two books in this authoritative box set offer a comprehensive guide to tracked and wheeled vehicles. The World Encyclopedia of Tanks features tanks and their derivatives, such as ARVs, tank destroyers, command versions, bridgelayers, mine-clearers and other Funnies. The World Encyclopedia of Armoured Fighting Vehicles features armoured cars, armoured personnel carriers and self-propelled artillery, covering a wide range of wheeled, tracked and half-tracked vehicles.With over 1200 photographs from museums and libraries, these books provide enthusiasts, historians and modelmakers with a superb guide to this fascinating subject.

A Complete Illustrated Guide to Tanks & Armoured Fighting Vehicles

A Complete Illustrated Guide to Tanks & Armoured Fighting Vehicles
Author: George Forty
Publisher:
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2014
Genre: Armoured vehicles, Military
ISBN: 9780754820727

Covers the cargo/troop-carrying trucks, wreckers, tankers, ambulances, communications vehicles and other specialized types that provide technical support to the front-line troops. The book puts each vehicle into the context of the key battles and campaigns in which they played a role, such as the Somme, Cambrai, Blitzkrieg, El Alamein, Kursk, D-Day, Korea, Vietnam, and the Iran-Iraq, Arab-Israeli and Gulf wars. It includes Little Willie, Sherman, Panther and Challenger tanks; and the Jeep, DUKW, Kubelwagen, Land Rover and Humvee. Specification boxes provide complete information about each vehicle's country of origin, date, crew, armament, powerplant, transmission, suspension, brakes, electrical system, dimensions, weight and performance.

The World Encyclopedia of Tanks & Armoured Fighting Vehicles

The World Encyclopedia of Tanks & Armoured Fighting Vehicles
Author: George Forty
Publisher: Lorenz Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Armored vehicles, Military
ISBN: 9780754833512

This book is an authoritative history and directory of tanks and their immediate derivatives, such as ARVs (armoured recovery vehicles), tank destroyers, command versions, bridgelayers, mine-clearers and other Funnies, and AFVs such as armoured cars, armoured personnel carriers and self-propelled artillery, covering a vast range of wheeled, tracked and semi-tracked vehicles. From the world's first tank, Little Willie , to the contemporary M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank, the book examines a vast range of tanks and AFVs. This unique volume, with over 1200 wartime and museum photographs, brings together the most significant tanks and AFVs in military history.

An Illustrated Guide to Tank Busters

An Illustrated Guide to Tank Busters
Author: Bruce Quarrie
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780134511542

Describes the characteristics and capabilities of modern tanks, and discusses the aircraft, missiles, artillery, rockets, and mines used against them.