دانلود کتاب Russian Tanks, 1900 1970: The Complete Illustrated History Of Soviet Armoured Theory And Design

The tanks of the Soviet armed forces today constitute the most powerful non-nuclear offensive weapon in the world. The development of this formidable tank arm has a long history which dates back to the earliest use of military armoured vehicles. Russian Tanks, 1900-1970 details the complete development history from the earliest vehicles, through the Second World War and the 1960s.

Soviet tanks - including the famed T-34 and Stalin tanks - brought a fear hitherto unknown into the hearts of panzer troops. During the Second World War the number of Soviet tanks always matched, if not exceeded, that of the Germans; the German initial devastation of the Soviet army was not the result of superiority of numbers or ability but rather of Stalin's purging of the officer corps in the 1930s.

This book presents, for the first time, the complete story of the development and tactical evolution of the Soviet armoured forces. It describes the design, development, technical characteristics and combat use of all the famous Russian tanks right up to the present day. A large amount of the material has never been published in English before.