Anthony Jones: 68 books
The Killing Game
A Thousand Years of Warfare in Twenty Battles
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The second millennium of mankind has been characterized by almost incessant warfare somewhere on the face of the globe. This book serves as a snapshot of the development of warfare over the past 1,000 years, illustrating the bravery and suffering mankind has inflicted upon itself in developing what...
The Battle for Kharkov 1941 - 1943
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The four battles fought for Kharkov during the Second World War are often overshadowed by the battles for Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, yet they were critical stages in the struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for control of the southern Soviet Union.
Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this volume...
Sustainability Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada
Taking the Next Steps
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Rural communities, often the first indicators of economic downturns, play an important role in planning for development and sustainability. Increasingly, these communities are compelled to reimagine the paths that lead not only to economic success, but also to the cultural, social, environmental,...
The Battle for Budapest 1944 - 1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
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...
Kalashnikov in Combat
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The Kalashnikov assault rifle, generically known as the AK-47, is the most famous small arm ever made. This weapon has transcended its Soviet designer and country of origin to become the most prolifically produced and iconic weapon in the world – and it has become a brand that has been used to sell...
Slaughter on the Eastern Front
Hitler and Stalin's War 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Anthony Tucker-Jones casts new light on the brutal fighting on the Eastern Front in World War II. Through his analysis of German front-line command assessments, he reveals the shocking destruction of German forces by the Soviets as early as 1942—and yet Hitler kept on fighting. Step by step, he describes how the German war machine fought to its very last against a relentless enemy.
Armoured Warfare in the Korean War
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
After the Second World War, military analysts thought that the only place significant armored forces were ever likely to confront each other again was in central Europe where the Nato alliance would fend off the Soviet Red Army. Then during the Korean War of 1950-53 both sides deployed large numbers...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
This photographic history of the Soviet-Afghan War of 1979 to 1989 gives a fascinating insight into a grim conflict that prefigured the American-led campaign in that country. In an unequal struggle, the mujahedeen resisted for ten years, then triumphed over Moscow. For the Soviet Union, the futile...
Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
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 Expeditionary Force and the French armies in Belgium and in northern...
Spitfire to Reaper
The Changing Face of Aerial Warfare - 1940-Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Since the Luftwaffe’s 1940 Eagle Day attack on Britain, aerial warfare and its accompanying technology has changed almost beyond recognition. The piston engine was replaced by the jet and the pilot in some cases has been completely replaced by a computer. Carpet bombing became GPS and laser pinpointed....
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The Battle of the Bulge took the Allied armies by surprise in 1944. It was a result of the extraordinary recovery of Hitler’s panzer divisions following crushing defeats on the Eastern and Western fronts. In a daring offensive he hoped his panzers would unhinge the American and British push on the...
The Iraq War
Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
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...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
The North African campaign, the struggle of the Italians and Germans against the Allies in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia between 1940 and 1943, was a war of movement and maneuver, of dramatic changes of fortune, and it was a war in which mechanized forces - tanks in particular - excelled. Compared with...
The Battle for the Caucasus 1942–1943
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
In late 1942 Hitler's forces advanced far into the Caucasus in the southern Soviet Union in one of the most ambitious offensives of the Second World War, but this extraordinary episode is often forgotten-it is overshadowed by the disastrous German attack on Stalingrad which took place at the same...