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  • HITLER'S ARMED SS
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    HITLER'S ARMED SS
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    A history of Germany’s Waffen-SS from its origins to its evolution, featuring insights to its leading commanders, divisions, war crimes and more. 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. As a distinct fighting force derived from t...

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  • AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 WORDS
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    AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 WORDS
    PAUL ANTHONY JONES
    What makes a place so memorable that it survives forever in a word? In this captivating round-the-world tour, Paul Anthony Jones acts as your guide through the intriguing stories of how eighty places became immortalized in the English language. You’ll discover why the origins of turkeys, limericks, Brazil nuts, and Panama hats aren’t quite as straightforward as you might presum...

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  • HITLER'S PANZERS
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    HITLER'S PANZERS
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    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...

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  • SOVIET SOCIAL PROBLEMS
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    SOVIET SOCIAL PROBLEMS
    WALTER CONNOR / DAVID E POWELL / ANTHONY JONES
    This book analyzes the Soviet Union's social problems, focusing on those it shares with Western industrial societies. It assesses the social concerns confronting Gorbachev, including poverty; prostitution; health, education, and family issues; and the difficulty of adapting to technological change. ...

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  • SOVIET UPDATE, 1989-1990
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    SOVIET UPDATE, 1989-1990
    ANTHONY JONES / DAVID E. POWELL
    Due to the pace of change in the USSR, monographs and textbooks in the field are quickly becoming dated. This book is the inaugural edition of a series that seeks to fill that void by presenting a biannual, systematic summary and analysis of developments in Soviet affairs. In this first volume, noted experts cover the years 1989-1990, examining the full range of political, econ...

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  • LAW, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND PARTNERSHIPS AT WORK
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    LAW, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND PARTNERSHIPS AT WORK
    RICHARD MITCHELL / ANTHONY O'DONNELL / SHELLEY MARSHALL / IAN RAMSAY / MEREDITH JONES
    This book examines how businesses manage their labour systems, and particularly how they manage the complex interaction of factors which give rise to instances of 'partnership' style relations between businesses and their employees. The book draws from the literature concerning 'Varieties of Capitalism' (VoC) and the different institutional and regulatory designs inherent in di...

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  • SOVIET COLD WAR WEAPONRY: AIRCRAFT, WARSHIPS, MISSILES AND ARTILLERY
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    SOVIET COLD WAR WEAPONRY: AIRCRAFT, WARSHIPS, MISSILES AND ARTILLERY
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    "In this companion volume to his photographic history of Soviet tanks and armoured vehicles, Anthony Tucker-Jones provides a visual guide to the vast array of aircraft, warships and missiles the Soviet armed forces deployed at the height of the Cold War. Although the superpowers never came to blows, the so-called 'Cold War' was far from cold, with numerous 'hot' proxy wars bein...

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  • THE VIETNAM WAR
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    THE VIETNAM WAR
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    This Vietnam War history examines the grueling Tet Offensive and America’s struggle against the Viet Cong with more than 180 wartime photographs. On January, 30th, 1968, the North Vietnamese communists launched a coordinated surprise attack across South Vietnam against the South Vietnamese and American armies. Superior firepower eventually crushed the offensive, but it proved t...

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  • THE IRAQ WAR
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    THE IRAQ WAR
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    The Iraq War is a visual record of the American-led Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, which resulted in the dramatic overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein. In a striking sequence of photographs Anthony Tucker-Jones shows how this was achieved by the American and British armed forces in a lightning campaign of just two weeks. But the photographs also show the disastrous aftermath ...

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  • ARMOURED WARFARE AND THE FALL OF FRANCE 1940
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    ARMOURED WARFARE AND THE FALL OF FRANCE 1940
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    A visual account of the fall of France during World War II, featuring images of tanks and other armoured vehicles used by belligerents. At 21:00 on 9 May 1940, Codeword Danzig was issued alerting Adolf Hitler’s airborne troops that they were about to spearhead an attack on Belgium and the Netherlands. The following day his blitzkrieg rolled forward striking the British Expediti...

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  • ARMOURED WARFARE IN THE BATTLE FOR NORMANDY
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    ARMOURED WARFARE IN THE BATTLE FOR NORMANDY
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    This fully illustrated WWII history offers a vivid look at the armored vehicles used by Allied and Nazi forces during D-Day and the Normandy Campaign. The remarkable photographs collected here illustrate in graphic detail the role armor played in the Allied D-Day landings and the liberation of occupied France—as well as the skill and tenacity of the German panzer units that con...

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  • ARMOURED WARFARE IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, 1943–1945
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    ARMOURED WARFARE IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, 1943–1945
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    This WWII pictorial history illustrates the wide array of armored vehicles deployed by Allied and Axis powers in Italy. The Second World War campaigns in North Africa, on the Eastern Front and in northwest Europe were dominated by armored warfare, but the battles in Italy were not. The Italian peninsula’s mountainous terrain was best suited to an infantry war. Yet from the Alli...

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  • TANK WRECKS OF THE EASTERN FRONT, 1941–1945
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    TANK WRECKS OF THE EASTERN FRONT, 1941–1945
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    A photographic history of the destruction left in the wake of the world’s largest confrontation between mechanized armies: “Highly recommended.” —AMPS Indianapolis   Four years of armored battle on the Eastern Front in the Second World War littered the battlefields with the wrecks of destroyed and disabled tanks, and Anthony Tucker-Jones’s photographic history is a fascinating ...

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  • PANZER I AND II
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    PANZER I AND II
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    While the Panzer I and II are not as famous as the German tanks produced later in the Second World War, they played a vital role in Hitler's early blitzkrieg campaigns and in the Nazi rearmament program pursued, at first in secret, by the Nazi regime during the 1930s. Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history of their design, development and wartime service is an ideal introd...

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  • THE RISE OF MILITANT ISLAM
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    THE RISE OF MILITANT ISLAM
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    At the end of the Cold War the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction replaced the Soviet Union as the new enemy of world peace. The pariah WMD states became enemy No. 1. The significance of militant Islams growing disgust with Western foreign policy and apparent indifference to the suffering of Muslims worldwide was missed until it was too late.In Rise of Militant Islam ...

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  • OPERATION DRAGOON
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    OPERATION DRAGOON
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    This WWII military study sheds light on the overlooked Allied landing in Provence and the liberation of Southern France. The Allied landings in the south of France in August 1944, are often seen as a sideshow supporting the crucial D-Day landings in Normandy. Indeed, the operation is often criticized as an expensive diversion of men and equipment from the struggle against the G...

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  • ARMOURED WARFARE IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICTS
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    ARMOURED WARFARE IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICTS
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    The latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Joness series of books on armoured warfare in the Images of War series is a graphic account of the development of armoured forces in the Arab and Israeli armies from 1948 to the present day. In a sequence of over 200 archive photographs he tells the story of the role armour played in Arab-Israeli conflicts over the last sixty years, from the ...

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  • ARMOURED WARFARE AND HITLER'S ALLIES, 1941–1945
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    ARMOURED WARFARE AND HITLER'S ALLIES, 1941–1945
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    This WWII pictorial history sheds light on the armored fighting vehicles built and deployed by Italy, Hungary and other Axis powers on the Eastern Front. In discussions of Second World War military vehicles, German, American and British tanks are given the most focus. Meanwhile, the tanks, self-propelled guns and armored cars built and deployed by Hitler’s Axis allies, have bee...

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  • ARMOURED WARFARE FROM THE RIVIERA TO THE RHINE, 1944–1945
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    ARMOURED WARFARE FROM THE RIVIERA TO THE RHINE, 1944–1945
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    While the Allied armies were deadlocked with the Germans in Normandy after D-Day and even as they broke out and began their long advance, another campaign was being fought against the Germans in southern France and it is this campaign, which is often neglected in accounts of the liberation of Europe, that is the subject of Anthony Tucker-Joness latest photographic history. In a...

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  • T-54/55
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    T-54/55
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    The Soviet T-54/55 is probably the best-known tank of the Cold War, and it was produced in greater numbers that any other tank in history. It first went into service just after the Second World War and over 70,000 were made, and its design was so successful that it even outlasted its successor the T-62. For a generation it formed the backbone of the armored forces of the Warsaw...

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  • ARMOURED WARFARE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1916-18
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    ARMOURED WARFARE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1916-18
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    A hundred years ago, on 15 September 1916, on the Western Front during the Battle of the Somme, the tank made its debut on the battlefield. The first tanks were crude, unreliable, vulnerable weapons, but they changed the character of land warfare forever, and Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history of these pioneering armored vehicles is the ideal introduction to them. In a...

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  • GERMAN ASSAULT GUNS AND TANK DESTROYERS 1940 - 1945
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    GERMAN ASSAULT GUNS AND TANK DESTROYERS 1940 - 1945
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    The assault guns and tank destroyers deployed by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War are not as famous as tanks like the Tiger and Panther, but they were remarkably successful, and they are the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones's wide-ranging photographic history. As the conflict progressed, the German army had to find a use for its obsolete panzers, and this gave rise to t...

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  • THE BATTLE FOR BUDAPEST 1944 - 1945
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    THE BATTLE FOR BUDAPEST 1944 - 1945
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    The desperate struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for Budapest in 1944 and 1945 was as lethal and destructive as any of the urban battles fought during the Second World War. The losses of men and equipment sustained by the Germans were so great that they hastened the collapse of Hitler’s regime. Yet what happened in Budapest is less well remembered today than other ...

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  • THE PANZER IV
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    THE PANZER IV
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    This pictorial history of the infamous Nazi tank presents a full account—in words and photographs—of Hitler’s most fearsome and versatile war machine. Throughout the Second World War, the Panzerkampfwagen Mk IV proved to be the one constant in Hitler's Panzerwaffe. It was the German equivalent of the American Sherman and the Soviet T-34. In this pictorial history, military expe...

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  • THE PANZER III
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    THE PANZER III
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    The Panzerkampfwagen III Panzer III was one of the German army's principal tanks of the Second World War, yet its history is often overlooked in comparison to its more famous successors the Panzer IV, Panther and Tiger. Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this volume in the Images of War series, provides a visual account of the tank in over 150 wartime photographs and describes in a conci...

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  • THE PANTHER TANK
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    THE PANTHER TANK
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    This pictorial history of the Nazi Panther tank offers an in-depth analysis of its innovative design and its role on the Eastern Front of WWII. The German Panther was one of the most important tanks of the Second World War, ranking alongside the American Sherman and the Soviet T-34. In a comprehensive study of this remarkable fighting vehicle, author and military expert Anthony...

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  • ALLIED ARMOUR, 1939–1945
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    ALLIED ARMOUR, 1939–1945
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    “An important review of armoured warfare, armoured vehicle design, tactics, and operational issues during World War 2 . . . it comes highly commended.” —Dr Stuart C. Blank, Military Archive Research During the first years of the Second World War, Allied forces endured a series of terrible defeats at the hands of the Germans, Italians and Japanese. Their tanks were outclassed, t...

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  • T-34
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    T-34
    WOLFGANG FLEISCHER / ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    “A wide-ranging and detailed account of the design and development of what was arguably the best tank of World War II.” —Miniature Armoured Fighting Vehicles Association Although the Red Army suffered continual heavy tank losses, the rugged and reliable T-34 was an immense success story and was ultimately instrumental in turning the tide of the war. This photographic history fo...

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  • LIFE AND DEATH ON THE EASTERN FRONT
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    LIFE AND DEATH ON THE EASTERN FRONT
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES / IAN SPRING
    This incredible visual record of life and death along the Eastern Front features more than 250 images from the the PIXPAST Archive, a collection of more than 32,000 original color photographs taken between 1936 and 1946. Collated into three parts and organised thematically, the book begins with images of the ground war, including Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union and the ta...

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  • THE BATTLE FOR WARSAW, 1939–1945
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    THE BATTLE FOR WARSAW, 1939–1945
    ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
    During the Second World War five brutal battles were fought in and around Warsaw. Each proved to be dramatic, decisive and bloody, and in this volume of the Images of War series Anthony Tucker-Jones records them all in graphic detail. The first occurred in 1939 when the Polish army was defeated by the German invaders, and five years of occupation followed. The second was sparke...

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