For Want of a Gun: The Sherman Tank Scandal of WWII, Hardcover

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Reducere. In Sherman: A History of the American Medium Tank, R. P. Hunnicutt provides the comprehensive history of the technological evolution that led to th...

Publisher: GILL & MACMILLANAuthor(s): GERALDINE POWELLNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 155 x 233 x 21Cover type: PaperbackRede...

DescriptionThe Medium Tank, M4, better known to the British as the Sherman, was the most widely used medium tank by the United States and western A...

The M4A4, also known as the Sherman V, with its unusual 30-cylinder Multibank engine, was the type of Sherman most widely used by Commonwealth forc...

A bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, Brothers of the Gun is an intimate lens on the century's bloodiest...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): David DoyleIllustration(s): 183 colour & b/w photosNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 2017Dimension...

This book documents the development and production of the M4A1 through its many variations, as well as its combat use around the globe. Produced by...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn World War II France, she went by the name of Marie. Or Brigitte. Or any of a half dozen other names. Some saw her as a middle-aged ne...

This book tells the true story of Himmler's plan to use prominent WWII concentration camp prisoners as hostages in an attempt to engage the Western...

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A fast-paced, fascinating and hard-hitting investigation of the gun's lifespan and into our hugely complex relationship with firearms and their und...

Sequel to the well-regarded Panzer Aces. Chapters on Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Kurt Knispel, Karl Nicolussi-Leck, and other great commanders....

Six riveting, gritty accounts of some of the greatest German tank commanders, including Michael Wittmann, Hans Bolter, Hermann Bix, and others. Tim...

DescriptionThe M40 NIMR D self-propelled armored autocannon was constructed and redesigned by Hungarian engineers of Swedish origin. This armored f...

Reducere. She surrendered, changed forever.Emptied of doubt, long-released shout.What comes now she doesn't know.This one's for you.It's time to go. Fueled b...

Contributor(s): Author: David DoyleThe Sturmgesch tz, or StuG, as it is more popularly known, while conceived as self-propelled, infantry support a...

Reducere. **Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment****A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017**After decades of sp...

Using rare footage from the film archive at IWM, this flip book shows the famous Sherman tank move up to the front, as a tank squadron prepares for...

DescriptionFrom the award-winning author of The Great Trouble comes a story of espionage, survival, and friendship during World War II. Bertie Brad...

In an age when scandal can destroy a company's brand or anyone's reputation in an instant-GLASS JAW is an Art of War guide to modern crisis managem...

DescriptionAn elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residentsFrom 1632 until 1854, Japan's rulers restricted contact with foreign countries, ...

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DescriptionVolume 2 on the famed Sherman medium tank covers the welded-hull, radial-engine-equipped M4 and documents its development and production...

An intimate true account of Americans at war, Days of Steel Rain is an epic drama about an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the fac...

DescriptionThe Battle of Kursk was one of the defining moments of World War II. In July 1943, German forces under Erich von Manstein--one of German...

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Reducere. The war ends and Josje is returned to his parents. "Who are these people who call themselves my parents, " he imagines. He is three years old and f...

Reducere. The M4 Sherman medium tank was the first American tank to carry a 75mm main gun mounted on a fully traversing turret. Powered by a 500 horsepower, ...

William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known generals in the Civil War. His March ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: W. Sherman RogersWINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE AMERICAN CAPITALISTIC ECONOMY: A PRIMER Economists generally agree that the new ...

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