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David Porter has had a life-long interest in military history, particularly armoured warfare and AFV technology. Since leaving the British Military of Defence in 2006 after 29 years' service, he has worked on a number of research projects. In recent years David has contributed articles and book visa mer reviews to the BBC History Magazine, the British Army Review and the Royal Engineers Journal. Since 1997, he has tutored military history leisure courses at Bath University, Dillington House and other further education centres. visa färre
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Very excellent high level visual guide to Soviet forces in WWII. Many books lack good maps but this one has them in abundance. Also,really nice graphics of Soviet tank units. The text is concise and covers the major points very well. Two small things that I wish were included:
1: Many of the TO&Es are not totaled at the bottom making it hard to see the unit strength at a glance.
2: There is no coverage of the 1945 Manchurian invasion which shows Soviet forces in full flower. As Nomonhan is included at the beginning of the book the omission of its bookend at the end of the war is very curious.
These are, however, minor items in an otherwise really good book.… (mer)
1: Many of the TO&Es are not totaled at the bottom making it hard to see the unit strength at a glance.
2: There is no coverage of the 1945 Manchurian invasion which shows Soviet forces in full flower. As Nomonhan is included at the beginning of the book the omission of its bookend at the end of the war is very curious.
These are, however, minor items in an otherwise really good book.… (mer)
This is a petty good Tank statistics book. There is a good number of photographs and artist's illustrations and the text is good about design flaws and design history. A serious problem is the lack of armour locations and thickness which led to me getting my own armour stats off the net. There are statistics and photos for the usually neglected French and Polish Tanks.
Visually great book. Lots of different illustrations of almost every major Soviet tank armored car, rocket truck and support vehicle. They miss the T-50 for some reason which is very minor historically but serious as regards development of tank design. Information is a bit repetitive - there are several drawings of BT-5s with the same caption for example. But the book covers unit strengths and compositions for more obscure conflicts like the Winter War and Manchuria 1945 which is awesome. Overall very good.… (mer)
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- 13
- Medlemmar
- 297
- Popularitet
- #78,942
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 5
- ISBN
- 145
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- 7
It is fascinating to think that without the advancements made by German engineers and scientists in WWII such as V weapons, America would never have stood a chance of beating the Russians to the moon; or without the German development of the the jet engine or Horton wing, the US would not have had a stealth bomber. The latter in particular I find humourous since the stealth bomber was hailed as a wonder of late 1980's early 1990's American military manufacture, yet the concept had already been designed and developed by the Horton brothers decades before the US even thought of stealth or a flying wing.
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