The sub-title of this book is ‘Six Months on the Frontline’ and for any soldier that is a long time.
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The author is an experienced shooter so he knows what is involved in shooting over distance and with great accuracy.
continue reading >There have been many books written about military sniping, ranging from the ‘okay’ to very good....
continue reading >It is generally accepted that modern sniping, as we understand the term today, began during the...
continue reading >There have been many books written about the first day of the Battle of the Somme,...
continue reading >The 1916 Battle of the Somme is a well-known chapter of the First World War, but...
continue reading >Tanks are a favourite with many military enthusiasts and authors always seem to find something new...
continue reading >Collecting militaria is big business and extremely popular and getting it right can mean all the...
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The Soviet Union armed forces reached a peak of around 20 million during WWII and the country suffered almost 12 million civilian and military deaths.
continue reading >Winston Churchill said the Soviet Union was ‘a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’....
continue reading >The interest in Special Forces and the operations they have been engaged in is one of...
continue reading >This was first published in 1956 and was written in a no frills style; a book...
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Whatever title one picks up in any of the Osprey series the book represents value for money.
continue reading >Following the German army’s attack against Russia in June 1944, the Russian army was desperate for...
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The First World War saw the introduction of tanks onto the battlefield and when the fighting ended in 1918 there were some remarkable plans on the drawing-board, including some German designs for tanks weighing 120 and 150 tons.
continue reading >The campaign in North Africa, in 1941, is usually seen as being between Britain and its...
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When WWII broke out most armies had a tank force, but despite popular belief many of the machines were in the category of light tank. The Russian army had a tank force which was considered the most powerful in the world, but mostly it was equipped with light tanks, such as the type which is the subject of this work.
continue reading >During the Cold War the former Soviet Union surprised the western powers in NATO many times...
continue reading >By 1945, Germany was being squeezed from all sides and forced to engage in defensive operations....
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