Armored Trains
First seen during the American Civil War and later appearing in the Franco-Prussian War and the Anglo-Boer Wars, the armored train came to prominence on the Eastern Front during World War I. It was also deployed during the Russian Civil War and the technology traveled east into the Chinese Civil War, and the subsequent war with Japan. It saw service on the Russian Front in World War II, but was increasingly sidelined because of its vulnerability to air attack. Steven J Zaloga examines the origins and development of the armored train, focusing equally on the technical detail and on the fascinating story of how armored trains were actually used…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Bryan, Tony (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84908-958-6
- EAN: 9781849089586
- Produktnummer: 13860161
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 48 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'665 KB
- Abbildungen: 40 b/w; 7 col
Über den Autor
Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over three decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and military history, with an accent on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union. He currently lives in Maryland.
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