"An authoritative study over 40 types of tanks that served with the Soviet armored forces before 1945, detailing their development and use from the early days of the tank arm in the 1920s, through the purges of the late 1930s and the German invasion in 1941, to the epic tank bat…
T-64 battle tank: the Cold War's most secret tank
by Zaloga, Steve, Tooby, Adam, Palmer, Ian
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The T-64 was the most revolutionary tank design of the Cold War, designed to provide the firepower and armor protection of a heavy tank in a medium-weight design. It pioneered a host of new technologies including laminate armor, stereoscopic tank rangefinders, opposed-piston eng…
T-64 battle tank: the Cold War's most secret tank
by Zaloga, Steve, Tooby, Adam, Palmer, Ian
fromNew vanguard
T-72 Soviet main battle tank 1974-1993
by Sarson, Peter, Zaloga, Steve, Jerchel, Michael, Swell, Stephen
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T-72: main battle tank 1974-1993
by Zaloga, Steve, Jerchel, Michael, Sewell, Stephen
fromNew vanguard
Iosef Stalin tanks were the ultimate heavy tanks developed by the Soviet Union and were popularly called 'Victory tanks' due to their close association with the defeat of Germany in 1945. Yet in spite of their reputation, the Stalin tanks emerged from a troubled design, had a br…
Soviet Lend-Lease Tanks of World War II
by Zaloga, Steven J., Morshead, Henry,, Mr
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"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 v…