Anthony Jones: 68 books
Kursk 1943
Hitler's Bitter Harvest
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
In 1943, as war raged along the Eastern Front, the German forces attempted to push further east in the brutal Operation Citadel, which saw one of the largest armoured clashes in history in the Battle of Prokhorovka. Countered by two Soviet attacks, this battle saw the tide turn on the Eastern Front....
German Assault Guns and Tank Destroyers 1940 - 1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
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...
Armoured Warfare in the First World War
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
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...
The Afghan War
Operation Enduring Freedom 1001-2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Drugs, war and terrorism were the unholy trinity that brought the US-led air campaign crashing down on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in October 2001 in Operation Enduring Freedom, and this photographic history is a graphic introduction to it.
The immediate aim was to eject the Taliban from...
D-Day 1944
The Making of Victory
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Two years earlier the Dieppe Raid had ended in disaster – despite their meticulous planning the Allies feared Operation Overlord might go the same way. Instead D-Day proved an incredible success; however, what followed was marred by serious mistakes on both sides resulting in three months of bitter...
Armoured Warfare from the Riviera to the Rhine 1944 - 1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
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...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Operation Market Garden, September 1944, the Netherlands. Three parachute drops and one armored charge. The prize was the last bridge at Arnhem over the Neder Rijn. Taken intact it would provide the Allies with a backdoor into Germany – the famous ‘Bridge Too Far.’ This was one of the most audacious...
Armoured Warfare and the Waffen-SS 1944-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Over 150 wartime photographs give a graphic snapshot of the dramatic tank battles fought by the Waffen-SS panzer and panzergrenadier divisions during 1944-5 on both the Eastern and Western fronts. By this stage of the Second World War these formations were at the height of their powers and took part...
Tank Wrecks of the Eastern Front 1941–1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
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 guide to them. It provides a graphic record of the various types of tank deployed...
Iran-Iraq War
The Lion of Babylon, 1980–1988
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
The bloody eight-year Iran-Iraq war is now almost forgotten, overshadowed by the subsequent Gulf War and Iraq War. However, it is best remembered for the unique so-called ‘Tanker War’ which threatened to strangle the world’s oil supplies. At the time Tucker-Jones as a defence analyst wrote extensively...
CultureShock! Beijing
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Home to more than 100,000 foreigners, it is no surprise that the city has been spawning modern buildings to accommodate the increasing economic activity. Go on a historical tour to uncover the traditional values and customs of the Beijing people and understand who they really are. CultureShock! Beijing...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
It Was All a Dream
If You Can Dream It, You Can Make It Happen. We Did!
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Because of our belief that every young scholar can reach their full potential with willpower, help, encouragement and guidance despite real challenges in their life, the men of TDI were inspired to create a teaching resource that gives empowering stories of their lives from childhood to college to young...
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist
Enduring Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...