Bøger af Anthony Tucker-Jones

Comprehensive illustrated history of the German panzers from the mid-1930s to 1945.

_âEUR¿By focusing attention on a poorly understood but vitally important aspect of ChurchillâEUR(TM)s career, Tucker-Jones has performed an important service. Churchill Cold War Warrior should be read, not only as a commentary on the ironies of history, but also as an essay on the potential and the limits of power.âEUR(TM) - _PROFESSOR RICHARD TOYE, AUTHOR OF WINSTON CHURCHILL: A LIFE IN THE NEWSIn Churchill Cold War Warrior, renowned military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones reassesses Winston ChurchillâEUR(TM)s neglected postwar career. He explains how in an unguarded moment Winston inadvertently sowed the seeds for the Cold War by granting Stalin control of Eastern Europe. Famously Churchill, at Fulton, then warned of the growing danger created by this partition of the continent. Winston after the Second World War wanted to prove a point. Shunned by the electorate in 1945, instead of retiring he was determined to be Prime Minister for a second time. Biding his time he watched in dismay as Britain scuttled from India and Palestine and weathered the East-West confrontation over Berlin. He finally got his way in 1951 and took the reins of a country with drastically waning powers. Churchill was confronted by a world in turmoil, with an escalating Cold War that had gone hot in Korea and an unravelling British Empire. Communism and nationalism proved a heady cocktail that fanned the flames of widespread conflict. He had to contain rebellions in Kenya and Malaya while clinging on in Egypt. Desperately he also sought to avoid a Third World War and the use of nuclear weapons.

Tells the terrifying story of the final days of the Nazi regime in Berlin.

Anthony Tucker-Jones traces the evolution of the panzers from their modest beginnings to the most powerful German tanks used in World War II.Often it is assumed that Hitler's panzers stormed into action perfectly formed, driving through the armies of the Poles in 1939 and the French in 1940 and defeating them. The dramatic blitzkrieg victories won by the Wehrmacht early in the Second World War - in which the panzers played a leading role - tend to confirm this impression. But, as Anthony Tucker-Jones demonstrates in this illustrated, comprehensive and revealing history of the panzers, this is far from the truth.As armored fighting vehicles the early panzers were no better than - sometimes inferior to - those of their opponents, but their tactics rather than their technology gave them an advantage. Later on German tank designers developed technically superior tanks but these could not be built fast enough or in sufficient numbers. For all their excellence, they were overwhelmed by the American Shermans and Soviet T-34s that were produced in their tens of thousands.This is the story Anthony Tucker-Jones relates as he traces the evolution of the panzers from the modest beginnings in the 1930s to the Panzer IVs, Panthers and Tigers which were the most formidable German tanks of the war. Not only does he cover their design and production history, he also assesses their combat performance and gives a fascinating insight into the decision-making at the highest level which directed German tank design.

The remarkable evolution of aerial warfare from 1940 to the present day, from Spitfire to Reaper drone

An in-depth look at the evolution of battle tactics and military technology since 1066

Graphic account of the role key cities played in shaping the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Chapters on the fighting for Moscow, Odessa, Kharkov, Sevastopol, Leningrad, Grozny, Sta-lingrad, Belgorod, Minsk, Warsaw, Budapest, K nigsberg, Prague and Berlin.

"This book provides a strategic overview of the war that is interweaved with fascinating personal accounts, its campaigns and battles." - Professor Geoffrey Roberts. In this exciting and illuminating account, Anthony Tucker-Jones explores the major campaigns across the whole Mediterranean during World War II, from the struggle for control of the Suez Canal to the Allied landings in the French Riviera in the summer of 1944. This was America's first foray into the European theater and marked a real turning point in the Allied offensive against Axis powers. Includes: - Battle for Crete - The Desert Air War- Second Battle of El Alamein- Operation Crusader >The actions of famous generals are introduced, including Bernard Montgomery and George S. Patton, and how their strategic offensives pushed back Axis forces. Augmented by fascinating photographs and forwarded by Geoffrey Roberts, Emeritus Professor of History at University College Cork, The Battle for the Mediterranean tells the story of an all-encompassing conflict, by land, air and sea.

The Waffen-SS was one of the most formidable German military formations of the Second World War - feared for its tenacity and ruthlessness in battle, notorious for the atrocities it committed.

A visual journey through the landscape of war along the Eastern Front as never seen before.

Comprehensive illustrated history of Allied tanks and tank forces during the Second World War.

'What a brilliant book this is. a terrific narrative of Hitler's Ardennes offensive of December 1944 - superb storytelling that achieves a skilful balance between drama and detail.' - James HollandThe Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive in the West. Launched in the depths of winter to neutralize the overwhelming Allied air superiority, three German armies attacked through the Ardennes, the weakest part of the American lines, with the aim of splitting the Allied armies and seizing the vital port of Antwerp within a week. It was a tall order, as the Panzers had to get across the Our, Amblève, Ourthe and Meuse rivers, and the desperate battle became a race against time and the elements, which the Germans would eventually lose. But Hitler's dramatic counterattack did succeed in catching the Allies off guard in what became the largest and bloodiest battle fought by US forces during the war. In this book, Anthony Tucker-Jones tells the story of the battle from the German point of view, from the experiences of the infantrymen and panzer crewmen fighting on the ground in the Ardennes to the operational decisions of senior commanders such as SS-Oberstgruppenführer Josef 'Sepp' Dietrich and General Hasso von Manteuffel that did so much to decide the fate of the offensive. Drawing on new research, Hitler's Winter provides a fresh perspective on one of the most famous battles of World War II.

Comprehensive illustrated history of tank warfare from 1948 to 1991.

Comprehensive illustrated history of Soviet tank forces from the mid-1930s to 1945.

Comprehensive illustrated history of Allied tanks and tank forces during the Second World War.

In his major reassessment of the war on the Eastern Front, Anthony Tucker-Jones casts new light on the brutal fighting on the Eastern Front, in such astounding German defeats as at Stalingrad and Kursk.

The tragic history of Warsaw during the Second World War documented in 200 graphic wartime photographs.

Photographic history of destroyed and disabled tanks photographed on the Western Front in the Second World War.

Photographic history of the war in the air during the Normandy campaign.

Photographic history of one of the most famous airborne assaults of the Second World War .

The remarkable evolution of aerial warfare from 1940 to the present day, from Spitfire to Reaper drone

Photographic history of the war in the air over North Africa and the Mediterranean during the Second World War.

Photographic history of one of the most famous battles of the Second World War.

Concise account of a forgotten Cold War conflict and its terrible outcome.

Concise guide to the rise of one of the most infamous architects of terror-Daesh