Anthony Tucker Jones: 46 books
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
The German Tiger I and Tiger II (known to the Allies as the 'King Tiger' or 'Royal Tiger') were the most famous and formidable heavy tanks of the Second World War. In their day their awesome reputation inspired such apprehension among Allied soldiers that the weaknesses of these brilliant but flawed...
Daesh
Islamic State’s Holy War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Anthony Tucker-Jones is only too familiar with the modern architects of terror. For the past decade and a half he has worked as the terrorism and security correspondent for the highly respected intersec – The Journal of International Security. During that time he has written extensively on al Qaeda...
Operation Dragoon
The Liberation of Southern France 1944
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in the south of France in August 1944, is often seen as a sideshow supporting Operation Overlord, the crucial D-Day landings in Normandy. And often the operation is criticized as an expensive diversion of men and equipment from the struggle against the German...
Armoured Warfare in the Italian Campaign
1943 to 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
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 mountainous topography of the Italian peninsula ensured that it was foremost an infantry war, so it could be said that tanks played...
Stalin's Revenge
Operation Bagration and the Annihilation of Army Group Centre
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2009
In the summer of 1944 the Red Army crushed Army Group Centre in one of the largest offensives in military history. Operation Bagration - launched almost exactly three years after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union - was Stalin's retribution for Hitler's Operation Barbarossa.
Earlier battles...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Jones’s series of photographic histories of armored warfare records in graphic detail the role played by tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery during the decisive campaign in northwest Europe in 1944-5. In a sequence of over 200 archive...
The Rise of Militant Islam
An Insider’s View of the Failure to Curb Global Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
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 Islam’s growing disgust with Western foreign policy and apparent indifference to the suffering...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Jones’s 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...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
German, American and British tanks come to mind first whenever the military vehicles of the Second World War are considered – they get all the historical attention. The tanks, self-propelled guns and armored cars built and deployed by the secondary nations in the conflict, in particular by Hitler’s...
The Eastern Front Air War 1941-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This selection of over 150 photographs provides a visual guide to the desperate air war fought over the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945. Most of these black-and-white wartime photographs have never been published before.
They show Stalin’s Red Air Force and Hitler’s Luftwaffe, their equipment...
The Panther Tank
Hitler’s T-34 Killer
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Along with the Tiger, Sherman and T-34, the Panther ranks as one of the most famous tanks of the Second World War. Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this comprehensive new study of a remarkable fighting vehicle, uses over 100 archive photographs, along with a selection of colour profiles, to describe its design,...
The Panzer IV
Hitler's Rock
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
The Panzerkampfwagen Mk IV proved to be the one constant in Hitler's Panzerwaffe throughout the Second World War - the German equivalent of the American Sherman and the Soviet T-34\. In this companion volume to his best-selling visual histories of the Tiger and Panther tanks, Anthony Tucker-Jones...
T-54/55
The Soviet Army's Cold War Main Battle Tank
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
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...
Panzer III
Hitler's Beast of Burden
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
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...