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Allied Tanks in Normandy 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga; Felipe Rodríguez (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
A concisely detailed guide to the Allied tanks that fought from D-Day to the breakout from Normandy, their qualities, numbers, and performance, and how they were used on the battlefield. When Allied tanks began to roll off the landing craft on D-Day, it marked the start of one of the great periods of t ...Show more
British Aircraft Carriers 1945-2010 by Angus Konstam
Category: No Category | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The history of the Royal Navy flagships that led the fleet through the Cold War, ensured victory in the Falklands War, and saw action in Iraq and the Balkans.In 1945, at the end of World War II, the Royal Navy's carrier fleet proved essential to the post-war world. Royal Navy carriers fought in the Kore ...Show more
British Battlecruisers 1939-45 by Angus Konstam; Tony Bryan (Illustrator, Translator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
When war broke out in 1939, only three true battlecruisers remained in the Royal Navy including HMS ‘Hood’, the world's largest and fastest capital ship for much of her life, which would be destroyed in action against the German battleship ‘Bismarck’. Out of the remaining two battlecruisers (‘Repulse’ a ...Show more
British Destroyers 1939–45Wartime-built classes by Angus Konstam
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
As the possibility of war loomed in the 1930s, the British Admiralty looked to update their fleet of destroyers to compete with the new ships being built by Germany and Japan, resulting in the commissioning of the powerful Tribal-class. These were followed by the designing of the first of several slight ...Show more
British Frigates and Escort Destroyers 1939-45 by Angus Konstam; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
A history of the small, mass-produced warships that defended the Atlantic convoys from U-boats and secured Britain's lifeline to the United States. As the Battle of the Atlantic grew fiercer, Britain and the Commonwealth needed large quantities of new warships to defend their shipping which could be pro ...Show more
British Gunboats of Victoria's Empire by Angus Konstam; Paul Wright (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
A beautifully illustrated history of the iconic ocean-going gunboats of British 'gunboat diplomacy', the hundreds of little warships that for 50 years demonstrated the power of the Royal Navy worldwide, and which maintained and enforced the rule of the British Empire at its peak.In recent years the phra ...Show more
British Ironclads 1860-75 - HMS Warrior and the Royal Navy's 'Black Battlefleet' by Angus Konstam; Paul Wright (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad the following year - HMS Warrior - which, when she ente ...Show more
Churchill Infantry Tank 1941-51 by Bryan Perrett; Peter Sarson (Illustrator); Mike Chappell (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The Churchill was undoubtedly one of the most successful British tanks of the Second World War. Although it suffered from being underarmed, a defect common to most British armoured vehicles of the period, it was nevertheless loved by its crews: its cross-country ability was unrivalled and it was less in ...Show more
Early US Armor by Zaloga Steven J.
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The first American armoured cars began to emerge around the turn of the century, seeing their first military use in 1916 during the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa. When the United States entered World War I, the American Expeditionary Forces used some armoured cars in France, and American armo ...Show more
Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers 1945-91 by Mark Stille; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
Famous as the ship that arguably won the Pacific War, the Essex-class carrier was also the heart of the US carrier fleet throughout much of the Cold War. Naval expert Mark Stille explains how the biggest class of fleet carriers ever built found new life in the jet age. As designed, the Essex class alrea ...Show more
Foreign Panthers - The Panzer V in British, Soviet, French and Other Service 1943-58 by Thomas Seignon; M. P. Robinson; Henry Morshead (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
A study of the little-known career of Germany's Panther, perhaps the greatest tank of World War II, in foreign hands both during and after the war.The Panther was arguably the most successful medium tank design of World War II, demonstrated by the number of Germany's enemies that used them after, and ev ...Show more
German Tanks in Normandy 1946 by Steven J. Zaloga
Category: No Category | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
German Tanks In Normandy 1944, The Panzer, Sturmgeschütz and Panzerjäger forces that faced the D-Day invasion. The German tank forces in Normandy in June-August 1944 had the advantage of fighting on the defensive side, as well as fielding some of the most powerful tanks used by any army in the war. Yet ...Show more