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Book Synopsis World War II in Focus: Mechanized Warfare by : Ray Merriam
Download or read book World War II in Focus: Mechanized Warfare written by Ray Merriam and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press World War II In Focus 1. First Edition (2013). 1,000 photographs (31 in color) of armored and military fighting vehicles of World War II of the United States, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Rumania, Estonia, and Portugal. Tanks, self-propelled guns, armored cars, tank destroyers, trucks, half-tracks, amphibious vehicles, a variety of specialized vehicles and more.
Book Synopsis World War II in Focus Volume 3 - Mechanized Warfare Part 2 by : Ray Merriam
Download or read book World War II in Focus Volume 3 - Mechanized Warfare Part 2 written by Ray Merriam and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press World War II In Focus Volume 3. First Edition (2013). Over 1,000 photos and images! The third volume in the World War II In Focus series is the first covering only German mechanized and armored warfare. This volume is an extensive pictorial on the military vehicles of the German armed forces during the Second World War, including light tanks, medium tanks, heavy tanks, amphibious vehicles, self-propelled guns, half-tracks, prime movers, tractors, trucks, tank transporters, recovery vehicles, support vehicles, scout cars, armored cars, motorcycles, experimental and specialized types, captured vehicles, and equipment, as well as the campaigns, operations, and battles, and the armored and mechanized troops and their commanders. This volume contains 1,025 photos (933 in B&W, 85 in color, plus 7 drawings and illustrations).
Book Synopsis Mechanized Warfare by : Simon Dunstan
Download or read book Mechanized Warfare written by Simon Dunstan and published by Chartwell. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using full-color photography and informative text, this amazing book tells the history of mechanized warfare.
Book Synopsis The Evolution of US Army Tactical Doctrine, 1946-76 by : Robert A. Doughty
Download or read book The Evolution of US Army Tactical Doctrine, 1946-76 written by Robert A. Doughty and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper focuses on the formulation of doctrine since World War II. In no comparable period in history have the dimensions of the battlefield been so altered by rapid technological changes. The need for the tactical doctrines of the Army to remain correspondingly abreast of these changes is thus more pressing than ever before. Future conflicts are not likely to develop in the leisurely fashions of the past where tactical doctrines could be refined on the battlefield itself. It is, therefore, imperative that we apprehend future problems with as much accuracy as possible. One means of doing so is to pay particular attention to the business of how the Army's doctrine has developed historically, with a view to improving methods of future development.
Book Synopsis German Fighting Vehicles of World War II in Focus by : Ray Merriam
Download or read book German Fighting Vehicles of World War II in Focus written by Ray Merriam and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press Armored Warfare 7. First Edition (2014). The third volume in the "German Fighting Vehicles of World War II In Focus" series features three pictorial articles and utilizes a new format with larger photos with captions as well as text providing history and specifications of vehicles. This volume covers: Panzerkampfwagen IV medium tank series (with 118 B&W and 42 color photos). Jagdpanzer IV self-propelled gun or tank destroyer series (with 118 B&W and 2 color photos). This series will also include articles on subjects pertaining to armored warfare, such as personalities and battles, and this volume features: The Myth of Rommel, with 1 color and 32 B&W photos, and a map. Additional volumes in this series are now in preparation.
Book Synopsis German Fighting Vehicles of World War II in Focus by : Ray Merriam
Download or read book German Fighting Vehicles of World War II in Focus written by Ray Merriam and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press Armored Warfare 6. Second Edition (2014). The German Fighting Vehicles of World War II series of volumes covers military vehicles of the German armed forces during the Second World War, including light tanks, medium tanks, heavy tanks, amphibious vehicles, self-propelled guns, half-tracks, prime movers, tractors, trucks, tank transporters, recovery vehicles, support vehicles, scout cars, armored cars, motorcycles, experimental and specialized types, captured vehicles, and equipment, operations, and armored and mechanized troops, in 542 photos (14 in color, 528 B&W).
Book Synopsis World War II [5 volumes] by : Spencer C. Tucker
Download or read book World War II [5 volumes] written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 2730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1,700 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of World War II, the events and developments of the era, and myriad related subjects as well as a documents volume, this is the most comprehensive reference work available on the war. This encyclopedia represents a single source of authoritative information on World War II that provides accessible coverage of the causes, course, and consequences of the war. Its introductory overview essays and cross-referenced A–Z entries explain how various sources of friction culminated in a second worldwide conflict, document the events of the war and why individual battles were won and lost, and identify numerous ways the war has permanently changed the world. The coverage addresses the individuals, campaigns, battles, key weapons systems, strategic decisions, and technological developments of the conflict, as well as the diplomatic, economic, and cultural aspects of World War II. The five-volume set provides comprehensive information that gives readers insight into the reasons for the war's direction and outcome. Readers will understand the motivations behind Japan's decision to attack the United States, appreciate how the concentration of German military resources on the Eastern Front affected the war's outcome, understand the major strategic decisions of the war and the factors behind them, grasp how the Second Sino-Japanese War contributed to the start of World War II, and see the direct impact of new military technology on the outcomes of the battles during the conflict. The lengthy documents volume represents a valuable repository of additional information for student research.
Book Synopsis Maneuver Warfare by : Richard D. Hooker
Download or read book Maneuver Warfare written by Richard D. Hooker and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today, America's armed forces face massive change, a dramatically reduced force structure, and severe budget cuts. The concept of "maneuver warfare" has been put forth as one promising solution to this dilemma. Can a small, maneuver-oriented military establishment actually serve us better, as its proponents claim? This vexing question provides the basis for this important book." "The answers to this question will serve as the foundation for American military doctrine in the 21st century. Here, some of America's finest minds explore the idea of maneuver-based warfare, getting to the heart of the issues and engaging in an energetic and lively debate, with each essay making an independent contribution to the evolving thought. Whether a cure-all or an empty bag of tricks, maneuver warfare theory presents a formidable challenge to the American defense establishment. The synthesis of ideas presented in this volume will be critically important in shaping the post-Cold War world. Everyone in the military, or interested in national defense, should read these thoughtful and controversial essays."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Armored Thunderbolt by : Steve Zaloga
Download or read book Armored Thunderbolt written by Steve Zaloga and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Hundreds of photos, including many never published before with riveting accounts of armored warfare in World War II • Compares the Sherman to other tanks, including the Panther and Tiger • Author is a world-renowned expert on the Sherman tank and American armor Some tank crews referred to the American M4 Sherman tank as a "death trap." Others, like Gen. George Patton, believed that the Sherman helped win World War II. So which was it: death trap or war winner? Armor expert Steven Zaloga answers that question by recounting the Sherman's combat history. Focusing on Northwest Europe (but also including a chapter on the Pacific), Zaloga follows the Sherman into action on D-Day, among the Normandy hedgerows, during Patton's race across France, in the great tank battle at Arracourt in September 1944, at the Battle of the Bulge, across the Rhine, and in the Ruhr pocket in 1945.
Book Synopsis French Fighting Vehicles of World War II in Focus by : Ray Merriam
Download or read book French Fighting Vehicles of World War II in Focus written by Ray Merriam and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press Armored Warfare 2. First Edition (2014). Coverage in text and photos of these French tanks: Char B1 (151 B&W and 7 color photos). Char D1 (1 color and 53 B&W photos, 2 drawings). Char D2 (45 B&W photos and 1 drawing). Char 2C (129 B&W photos and 1 drawing).
Book Synopsis World War II in Focus Volume 2 - Air Warfare Part 1 by : Ray Merriam
Download or read book World War II in Focus Volume 2 - Air Warfare Part 1 written by Ray Merriam and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press World War II In Focus 2 (2013) This volume in the World War II In Focus series covers U.S. military aircraft of the Second World War, including fighters, bombers, attack aircraft, transports, trainers, utility aircraft, floatplanes, flying boats, and experimental aircraft, as well as the airmen and operations of the USAAF, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard, in 1000 photographs and illustrations (942 B&W photos, 40 color photos, 14 illustrations (4 in color), 4 three-view drawings, 4 color illustrations).
Book Synopsis Mobility, Shock, and Firepower by : Robert S. Cameron
Download or read book Mobility, Shock, and Firepower written by Robert S. Cameron and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captures the multifaceted development of the Armored Force from its inauspicious beginnings in World War 1 to its fully mature, operational status at the close of World War 2. Provides an excellent case study in force transformation. Gives attention to training maneuvers conducted in the interwar period. Source material includes reports, memorandums, and correspondence of the majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels associated with armored development since World War I.
Book Synopsis The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898—1945 by : David Nasca
Download or read book The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898—1945 written by David Nasca and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898–1945 examines how the United States became a military superpower through the use of amphibious operations. While other major world powers pursued and embraced different weapons and technologies to create different means of waging war, the United States was one of the few countries that spent decades training, developing, and employing amphibious warfare to pursue its national interests.Commonly seen as dangerous and costly, amphibious warfare was carefully modernized, refined, and promoted within American political and military circles for years by a small motley group of military mavericks, intellectuals, innovators, and crackpots. This generational cast of underdogs and unlikely heroes were able to do the impossible by predicting and convincing America’s leadership how the United States should fight World War II.David Nasca reveals that despite the new ways that states have to project military power today as seen with airpower, nuclear weapons, cyber warfare, and special operators, amphibious warfare has proven to be the most important element in transforming the theater of battle. In understanding how amphibious warfare allowed the United States to achieve geopolitical supremacy, competitor states are now looking at America’s amphibious past for clues in how to challenge the United States’ global leadership and expand its power and influence in the world.
Book Synopsis Regressing Forward by : Jason C. Martin
Download or read book Regressing Forward written by Jason C. Martin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America forged a successful way of war that relied on adaptation, and this trait was not simply an adjunct to industrial might as a reason why the Allies won World War II. An American penchant for organization and corporate management allowed for mass production of war material, which clearly contributed to Axis defeat. However, to claim that the Axis powers were merely overwhelmed by an avalanche of weapons and supply is reductionist. This dissertation contends that adaptability was as much an American way of war as mass production and overwhelming firepower. The particular nature of American adaptability and its contribution to Allied victory are exhibited in the Army's use of animal power during a conflict synonymous with mechanized warfare and advanced technology. The application of pre-modern technology in a modern, machine-driven war was not archaic. On the contrary, the nature of American adaptability allowed the Army to move forward by retreating down a culturally constructed hierarchy of modernity and employing the traditional mode of animal transportation. The Army's technological regression from motors to mules in North Africa, the Mediterranean, and China-Burma-India during World War II is the focus of this work. Americans possessed material abundance in campaigns across Western Europe and the Central Pacific in 1944 and 1945, as German and Japanese prisoners attested. Mountains of artillery shells, fuel, and food, however, did not exist in the backwater "sideshows." American military success on the periphery was not due to material abundance, nor to a greater sense of determination. America won the backwater campaigns because the nature of American adaptability was cultivated over the centuries and converted from a way of life to an American way of war.
Book Synopsis General Lesley J. McNair by : Mark T. Calhoun
Download or read book General Lesley J. McNair written by Mark T. Calhoun and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George C. Marshall once called him "the brains of the army." And yet General Lesley J. McNair (1883-1944), a man so instrumental to America's military preparedness and Army modernization, remains little known today, his papers purportedly lost, destroyed by his wife in her grief at his death in Normandy. This book, the product of an abiding interest and painstaking research, restores the general Army Magazine calls one of "Marshall's forgotten men" to his rightful place in American military history. Because McNair contributed so substantially to America's war preparedness, this first complete account of his extensive and varied career also leads to a reevaluation of U.S. Army effectiveness during WWII. Born halfway between the Civil War and the dawn of the 20th century, Lesley McNair–"Whitey" by his classmates for his blond hair–graduated 11th of 124 in West Point's class of 1904 and rose slowly through the ranks like all officers in the early twentieth century. He was 31 when World War I erupted, 34 and a junior officer when American troops prepared to join the fight. It was during this time, and in the interwar period that followed the end of the First World War, that McNair's considerable influence on Army doctrine and training, equipment development, unit organization, and combined arms fighting methods developed. By looking at the whole of McNair's career–not just his service in WWII as chief of staff, General Headquarters, 1940-1942, and then as commander, Army Ground Forces, 1942-1944–Calhoun reassesses the evolution and extent of that influence during the war, as well as McNair's, and the Army's, wartime performance. This in-depth study tracks the significantly positive impact of McNair's efforts in several critical areas: advanced officer education; modernization, military innovation, and technological development; the field-testing of doctrine; streamlining and pooling of assets for necessary efficiency; arduous and realistic combat training; combined arms tactics; and an increasingly mechanized and mobile force. Because McNair served primarily in staff roles throughout his career and did not command combat formations during WWII, his contribution has never received the attention given to more public–and publicized–military exploits. In its detail and scope, this first full military biography reveals the unique and valuable perspective McNair's generalship offers for the serious student of military history and leadership.
Book Synopsis "AirLand Battle Preparation by : Theodore R. Severn
Download or read book "AirLand Battle Preparation written by Theodore R. Severn and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tank Warfare written by Jeremy Black and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the battlefield in the 20th century was dominated by a handful of developments. Foremost of these was the introduction and refinement of tanks. In Tank Warfare, prominent military historian Jeremy Black offers a comprehensive global account of the history of tanks and armored warfare in the 20th and 21st centuries. First introduced onto the battlefield during the World War I, tanks represented the reconciliation of firepower and mobility and immediately seized the imagination of commanders and commentators concerned about the constraints of ordinary infantry. The developments of technology and tactics in the interwar years were realized in the German blitzkrieg in World War II and beyond. Yet the account of armor on the battlefield is a tale of limitations and defeats as well as of potential and achievements. Tank Warfare examines the traditional narrative of armored warfare while at the same time challenging it, and Black suggests that tanks were no "silver bullet" on the battlefield. Instead, their success was based on their inclusion in the general mix of weaponry available to commanders and the context in which they were used.
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