Tanks, 9781472829818
Paperback
Explore the century-long evolution of tanks: resilience, power, and fighting machines.

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  • Paperback

    424 pages

  • Release Date

    28 February 2018

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Summary

Tanks: A Century of Armored Warfare

From an internationally acclaimed expert, 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 Wa…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472829818
ISBN-10:1472829816
Author:Professor Richard Ogorkiewicz, Richard Ogorkiewicz
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Osprey Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:424
Release Date:28 February 2018
Weight:382g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 32mm
About The Author

Professor Richard Ogorkiewicz

From 1972 to 2006 Professor Richard Ogorkiewicz was an independent member of several boards and committees of the Defence Scientific Advisory Council of the Ministry of Defence. Since 1979 he has been lecturing on armoured vehicles to Army Command and Staff at the Royal Military College of Science, now part of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, and since 1988 has been a Visiting Professor there. He is the author of three books on armoured vehicles. Since 1988 he has been consulting editor of IHS International Defence Review, contributing to it numerous articles on armoured vehicles, and since 1993 has also been a trustee of the national Tank Museum at Bovington.

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