Thomas Anderson: 70 books

This book lists all the important tanks used in the Second World War, both by the Allied (England, France, Russia and the USA) and Axis Powers (Germany, Italy and Japan). Thomas Anderson, an expert on the history of the Second World War, offers an in-depth volume detailing the vehicles, their use...

One of the most feared weapons of World War II, the Tiger tank was a beast of a machine which dominated the battlefields of Europe with its astonishing size, speed and firepower, which continues to fascinate more than 70 years after it was first designed. Revealing its design and development history,...

The Germans transformed armoured warfare from a lumbering and ponderous experiment in World War I into something that could decide the outcome of conflicts. This technical and operational history is the definitive guide to the legendary Panzerwaffe, from its very infancy to the days when it made Europe...

The German Panther is one of the most famous, and greatest, tanks of World War II. Often considered the most elegant tank design of the war, it embodied a balance of firepower, armour protection, and mobility unmatched by any other tank of the period. This new study by German armour expert Thomas...

The German Panzerartillerie was one of the key components of the Panzer divisions that were the spearhead of the German forces in the years when they overran most of Western Europe and reached as far as the gates of Moscow in the East. Warfare in the age of Blitzkrieg required fast-moving, mobile...

When Alison Jennings goes to work one morning, neither her nor husband Jeff thought she wouldn't return. By the end of the day, Jeff has to gather a small team of friends and family to help him solve the clues to a sick and stupid game. Unable to tell anyone else, Jeff and his team send him all over...

Stan was happy with his life, at least he was until he started receiving anonymous notes. Given a choice between coming clean about betraying his life-long friend or complying with devastating orders to kill people he knows and loves, Stan is so frightened for his own life and so chooses the latter. Having...

Daniel Pierce was a drug user and petty thief. Breaking in to one house too many he unknowingly takes evidence of police corruption on a massive scale. When he realises what he has in his hands, he panics and passes it on to Martin Dawson a self-styled journalist cum people's investigator. There follows...

In this thrilling adventure ride, American students abroad become embroiled in a deadly international race to find a force for freedom before the world succumbs to an imminent dystopia. Stanford grad Zak Miller is attending Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University when one morning, as he studies...

America has never really been about Americans. It has always been about the "tired," the "poor," the "huddled masses" and the "wretched refuse" of the rest of the world who yearn to be free. For four centuries, people have moved here to escape oppressive tyranny, to worship without compulsion, and to...

This is the story of the largest and statistically most successful tank destroyer of World War II. The Ferdinand was a true behemoth, and although only 91 examples were built, they took a savage toll of Soviet armour in the Battle of Kursk and subsequent operations on the Eastern Front. This study...

Shemya is a mostly true story of Tom’s time on the island of Shemya, an outpost at the end of the Aleutian island chain of Alaska. Tom’s time was scheduled to be one year, the minimum sentence according to Air Force regulations. It wasn’t long until things began to change. Tom was an...

The Sturmartillerie was a key part of Germany's armoured arsenal throughout World War II. Its armoured assault guns were designed to support the artillery on the battlefield, largely using the purpose-built Sturmgeschütz infantry support gun. This new and exhaustive study details the development...

First established in 1940, the Sturmgeschütz assault guns were purpose-built vehicles intended to support the infantry during the phase of attack and breakthrough of enemy positions. During the eastern campaign the Sturmgeschütz proved to be potent tanks destroyers, able to reliably defeat...