Anthony Tucker Jones: 46 books
Panzer I and II
The Birth of Hitler's Panzerwaffe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
While the Panzer I and II are not as famous as the German tanks produced later in the Second World War, they played a vital role in Hitler's early blitzkrieg campaigns and in the Nazi rearmament program pursued, at first in secret, by the Nazi regime during the 1930s. Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
On the Eastern Front during the Second World War massive Soviet and German tank armies clashed in a series of battles that were unmatched in their scale and ferocity. Several of them have attained almost legendary status. But epic encounters such as these were only part of a broader story, as Anthony...
T-34
The Red Army's Legendary Medium Tank
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
It could be said that the T-34 was the tank that won the Second World War. In total 57,000 were produced between 1941 and 1945. Stalin's tank factories outstripped Hitler's by a factor of three to one, and production of the T-34 also exceeded that of the famed American M4 Sherman.
Not only did...
The Gulf War
Operation Desert Storm 1990-1991
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Each stage in the Gulf War, the liberation by American-led UN forces of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait in 1990-91, is vividly described in this photographic history. Over 180 photographs provide a remarkable visual account of Operation Desert Storm in the air, at sea and on land, and they show the vast array...
Armoured Warfare in the Far East 1937-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history is a fascinating visual introduction to the armoured battles of the Second World War in the Far East and Asia-Pacific regions, from 1937 to 1945. In contrast to the experience of the armies that fought in Europe and North Africa, in the Far East tanks remained...
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...
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....