Steven J Zaloga: 116 books
Sicily 1943
The debut of Allied joint operations
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Not only did the Sicily operation represent a watershed in tactical development of combined arms tactics, it was also an important test for future Allied joint operations. Senior British commanders left the North African theater with a jaundiced and dismissive view of the combat capabilities of the...
T-64 Battle Tank
The Cold War’s Most Secret Tank
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The T-64 tank was the most revolutionary design of the whole Cold War, designed to provide the firepower and armour protection of a heavy tank in a medium-weight design. It pioneered a host of new technologies including laminate armour, stereoscopic tank rangefinders, opposed-piston engines, smooth-bore...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
The titanic armor battles of the Russian Front are widely known, but the role of Germany's eastern allies is not as well known. Two of these countries, Romania and Hungary, manufactured their own tanks as well as purchasing tanks from Germany. These ranged from older, obsolete types such as the PzKpfw...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The Red Army suffered such catastrophic losses of armour in the summer of 1941 that they begged Britain and the United States to send tanks. The first batches arrived in late 1941, just in time to take part in the defence of Moscow. The supplies of British tanks encompassed a very wide range of types...
M10 Tank Destroyer vs StuG III Assault Gun
Germany 1944
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The Allies' M10 Tank Destroyer and the Germans' Sturmgeschütz (StuG) lll were the unsung workhorses of the northwest European battlefields of 1944–45. While their mission was not principally fighting one another, their widespread use ensured their frequent encounters, from the Normandy Bocage,...
D-Day 1944 (1)
Omaha Beach
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
The D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 were the largest amphibious military operation ever mounted. The greatest armada the world had ever seen was assembled to transport the Allied invasion force across the Channel and open the long-awaited second front against Hitler's Third Reich. Of the landings on...
Panzergrenadier vs US Armored Infantryman
European Theater of Operations 1944
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
During World War II, the two pre-eminent mechanized infantry forces of the conflict, the German Panzergrenadier arm and the US Army's armoured infantrymen, clashed in France and Belgium after the Normandy landings. These engagements went on to profoundly influence the use of mechanized infantry in...
Remagen 1945
Endgame against the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
In the aftermath of the Battle of the Bulge in February 1945, the Allies embarked upon the final assault of Germany. The long-delayed US thrust over the Roer River eventually took place in February, leaving the Rhine as the last major geographical barrier to the Allied advance into Germany. This book...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Overshadowed by the United States Army's armored divisions, the separate tank and tank destroyer battalions had the difficult mission of providing armored support for US infantry divisions in the 1944–45 campaigns. This book details the organizational structures and deployment of these units: the...
US Armored Divisions
The European Theater of Operations, 1944–45
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The armored divisions were the shock force of the US Army's combat formations during the fighting in Northwest Europe in the final year of the war. Of the 16 such divisions formed during the war, all but one served in the European Theater of Operations. This book examines the organizational structure,...
Lorraine 1944
Patton versus Manteuffel
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
In the wake of the defeat in Normandy in the summer of 1944, Hitler planned to stymie the Allied advance by cutting off Patton's Third Army in the Lorraine with a great Panzer offensive. But Patton's aggressive tactics continued to thwart German plans and led to a series of violent armored battles....
US Infantryman vs German Infantryman
European Theater of Operations 1944
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
The Allied airborne and amphibious landings on D-Day opened up the long-awaited Second Front against Nazi Germany, but after overcoming the German coastal defenses at Utah and "Bloody Omaha,†? the US Army found itself having to contest every hedgerow and street in a nightmarish battle of attrition....
US Army Tank Crewman 1941–45
European Theater of Operations (ETO) 1944–45
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Revealing what it was like to live and fight in a medium tank this book is structured around the career of a single tanker from 37th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division. The focus is largely on the crew of an M4 Sherman, though light tank service is also studied. Tank operation required a welltrained...
French Tanks of World War II (1)
Infantry and Battle Tanks
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The first of two volumes covering the French armor of World War II, this title looks at the infantry and battle tanks that faced the onslaught of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940. Many of the French tanks were intended as replacements for the World War I-era Renault FT, and various modernization efforts...