The Tank Book

Author: DK
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 0241311292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Pivotal to modern warfare, tanks have dominated the battlefield for over a century. Get up close to more than 400 military colossuses with this definitive visual guide to armoured vehicles. In 1916, the British built a vehicle that could pound the battlefield impervious to enemy fire, crushing obstacles and barbed wire in its path. The first tank, or "Mother" as it was known, had arrived. In The Tank Book you can view it in detail, along with other iconic models including the German Panzer, the legendary Tiger, the Vickers Medium Mark II, the Centurion, and the Hellcat - the fastest armoured fighting vehicle ever. This comprehensive volume takes you through the most exciting story in recent military history with the development of heavy artillery, anti-tank weaponry, and the men - such as Mikail Koshkin and Sir William Tritton - who designed these awe-inspiring beasts. Produced with The Tank Museum, The Tank Book traces the tank's development in response to two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War and many other conflicts. It shows each model in detail, highlighting details such as their performance, specification, armour, weaponry, and much more. If you are interested in modern warfare, The Tank Book is truly unmissable reading.

Tanks

Author: Richard Ogorkiewicz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472813065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476

Book Description
From an internationally acclaimed expert in the field comes a detailed, analytical and comprehensive account of the worldwide evolution of tanks, from their inception a century ago to the present day. With new ideas stemming from the latest academic research, this study presents a reappraisal of the development of tanks and their evolution during World War I and how the surge in technological development during World War II and the subsequent Cold War drove developments in armour in Europe and America, transforming tanks into fast, resilient and powerful fighting machines. From the primitive, bizarre-looking Mark V to the Matilda and from the menacing King Tiger to the superlative M1 Abrams, Professor Ogorkiewicz shows how tanks gradually acquired the enhanced capabilities that enabled them to become what they are today – the core of combined-arms, mechanized warfare.

The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank

Author: Erma Bombeck
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 0345471725
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
“[Erma Bombeck] is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living.”—Vogue It’s the exposé to end all exposés—the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters.

By Tank Into Normandy

Author: Stuart Hills
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780304366408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard Holmes Stuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and Officer Cadet training. He was going to war. Two days later, his tank sunk, he and his crew landed from a rubber dinghy with just the clothes they stood in. After that, the struggles through the Normandy bocage in a replacement tank (of the non-swimming variety), engaging the enemy in a constant round of close encounters, led to a swift mastering of the art of tank warfare and remarkable survival in the midst of carnage and destruction. His story of that journey through hell to victory makes for compulsive reading.

My Tank Is Fight!

Author: Zack Parsons
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 0806534923
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
Soldiers that fly! Tanks that fly! Cruisers that . . . sink! What Fight Have Been My Tank Is Fight! contains a humorous and exciting examination of twenty real inventions from World War II that never saw the light of day. Each entry includes full technical details, a complete development history, in-depth analysis, and a riveting fictionalized account of the invention's success or failure on the battlefield. Lavish color artwork and technical illustrations are falling from the pages of this book like toenails from a trench foot. Dive under the Atlantic in the turreted U-Cruiser, or rule its surface from an aircraft carrier made out of ice. Shred bomber formations in a high-performance flying wing fighter and then rocket to your untimely end from the cockpit of your very own suicide missile. We've got a pair of German armored land vehicles for you that are so large they had to be powered by naval engines! My Tank Is Fight! delivers the thrilling action of the Second World War as it might have been with a touch of humor and a lack of class. Only the slow-witted are reading this anywhere other than in line at the cash register. Ask an adult to help you if you're still not sure you want to buy the book.

Tiger!

Author: David Fletcher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916355989
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Tank Sergeant

Author: Ralph Zumbro
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671639455
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Colorful and spellbinding, this is the combat autobiography of Sergeant Ralph "Zippo" Zumbro and the rarely told story of tank warfare in Vietnam. Zumbro's unit was the most highly decorated of the war, and his story is gripping reading for those interested in the Vietnam war and military nonfiction.

Tank

Author: M. Malone
Publisher: CrushStar Romance
ISBN: 1938789903
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Five secret brothers. BILLIONAIRES overnight due to the father they never knew. But everything has a price… especially family. The SIX-TIME USA TODAY bestselling series from RITA© Winner, M. MALONE. TANK There’s only one thing I know for sure about the woman of my dreams. I am not her type. She’s into three piece suits and pocket protectors not bodyguards in military boots. I’ve never been the kind of guy women want to take home … until a billionaire inheritance flips my life upside down. Suddenly I have brothers I’ve never met and the only person in my life who doesn’t want something from me is Emma. She’s the one true thing I have left. EMMA It’s an offer I can’t refuse. A million dollars to help an eccentric old man reconnect with his son should be the easiest money ever, right? Fake dating a billionaire is better than my previous plan: (1) Avoid my horrible boss and (2) find money for college. That was pretty much it. Except Tank Marshall is nothing like I expected. He’s cocky as hell but he’s also honest and loyal with a soft spot for rescue cats. And he sees me in a way no one else ever has. Suddenly the deal of a lifetime doesn’t seem worth it. Because once Tank finds out why I'm here, he'll never look at me the same way again. free ebooks, free romance books, free romance novels, free romance, contemporary romance free, contemporary romance books, free, freebie, romance free, romance series, new adult romance, romantic suspense, contemporary romance, beach reads, romance novels free, romance books, alpha male

Tank

Author: Nora Phoenix
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781075974342
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
A fake relationship with the guy I hate more than anything. Kill me now. Shallow pretty boy, conceited fuckboy, immature assclown. Take your pick, they all apply to Brewer. The world is his ass buffet, and we're all on the menu. I've never hated anyone like I hate Brewer. But when Rebel pairs us to do a scene together, I have to admit I'm looking forward to taking all my irritation out on his...well, you get the picture. When one scene turns into a whole fake relationship, I'm not sure we're going to make it out of this without some bloodshed.But then something weird happens. The more time we spend together, the more I see a different side of him...and dare to show a different side of me. What the hell is happening?** Tank is the second book in the sexy, emotional Ballsy Boys series. It can be read as a stand-alone, but it's more fun reading the series in order. Expect plenty of laughs, a whole lotta steam, and all the feels as you get to know these Ballsy Boys.

An Illustrated Guide to Tank Busters

Author: Bruce Quarrie
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780134511542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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