- Neil_BaumgardnerYeah, I have always wanted "Hunnicutts" on foreign vehicles. IMO, my personal "Hunnicutts" (or closest thing out there) on foreign vehicles include:
Centurion Tank by Bill Munro
Chars de France by Jean-Gabriel Jeudy (its in French, but its the best/only single volume reference I have seen on French armor development)
Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank 1987-2006 by Simon Dunstan
Challenger Main Battle Tank 1982-97 by Simon Dunstan
Challenger Squadron by Simon Dunstan
Chieftain by Rob Griffin
Conqueror by Rob Griffin
Czechoslovak Armored Fighting Vehicles 1918-1948 by Charles K. Kliment, Vladimir Francev
Germany's Panther Tank the Quest for Combat Supremacy: Development - Modifications - Rare Variants - Characteristics - Combat Accounts by Thomas L. Jentz (basically anything from Jentz is good)
The IS Tanks (IS-1, IS-2, IS-3) by Mikhail Baryatinskiy
Israeli Sherman by Thomas Gannon
Standard Catalog Of German Military Vehicles by David Doyle (best single volume resource I have found on WWII German vehicles, and at a decent price too)
The Panther & Its Variants (Spielberger German Armor & Military Vehicles, Vol 1) by Walter J. Spielberger
Soviet/Russian Armor and Artillery Design Practices: 1945 to Present
by David R. Markov and Steven Zaloga (best, most comprehensive English work on this subject I am aware of, started out as a project for the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity!)
Any of the old AFV Profile pamphlets are also pretty good...
Neil
- Doug_Kibbey- geoffsteerHi Guys-
Reference the following from senior Doug Kibbey's post:
Geoff Steer [;-{/)
Geoff, if we can just make that Señor, we'll be back on speaking terms again....
- Scott_TaylorHi Neil:
I was not at all impressed by the Munro Centurion book. I borrowed a friend's and read it, and was pretty horrified by the number of mistakes in it (for instance, referring to the air deflector at the rear of the Centurion as a "dozer blade"!). My memory fails me, but the book was riddled with errors, both large and small. Once I find those sorts of errors in common information, I find myself unable to trust any of the research behind it. I was tempted to make a list of the mistakes I found, but it would have been something akin to a graduate student I heard of who wrote a doctoral thesis on all of the errors/omissions/tweaking of history present in Churchill's History of the Second World War.
Mark Hayward's Firefly book is what I would consider one of those definitive works, along with the Leopard 1 trilogy from Barbarossa Books (the author's name escapes me, I'm afraid).
- Doug_KibbeyNo wonder your name is "Mr. Smart"!
Chuck should study at the feet of the master, you obviously know how to get ahead in life.
(Now I just need to have a word with Roy about that "Dong" thing)
- Doug_KibbeyNo wonder your name is "Mr. Smart"!
Chuck should study at the feet of the master, you obviously know how to get ahead in life.
(Now I just need to have a word with Roy about that "Dong" thing)
- Maple_Leaf_EhSince all this talk of Hunnicutt's authorship is elevating the interst, I'll strategically raise my opening bid to $2.00 per book, all the venison in my freezer, AND $10 in tickets to the 6/49 lottery. Hey, it is worth $15 million this Friday!
It's too bad George lives in another city, or I'd forget the lottery tickets and throw in two driveway shovellings within the next year. And he could pick the days. I'd being generous here, eh?
- Doug_Kibbey
2. What's a "shovelling"?
D.
...The IS Tanks (IS-1, IS-2, IS-3) by Mikhail Baryatinskiy...
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