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Armoured warfare in the Vietnam War : rare photographs from wartime archives
- Title
- Armoured warfare in the Vietnam War : rare photographs from wartime archives / Michael Green.
- Author
- Green, Michael, 1952-
- Publication
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | UG446.5 .G74 2014 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 192 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.
- Summary
- Historian and collector Michael Green shows in this fascinating and graphically illustrated book that the two wars that engulfed Indochina and North and South Vietnam over 30 years were far more armoured in nature than typically thought of. By skilful use of imagery and descriptive text he describes the many variants deployed and their contribution. The ill-fated French Expeditionary Force was largely US equipped with WW2 M3 and M5 Stuart, M4 Sherman and M24 light tanks as well as armoured cars and half-tracks. Most of these eventually went to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam but were outdated and ineffective due to lack of logistics and training. The US Army and Marine Corps build-up in the 1960s saw vast quantities of M48 Pattons, M113 APCs and many specialist variants and improvised armoured vehicles arrive in theatre. The Australians brought their British Centurion tanks. But it was the Russians, Chinese and North Vietnamese who won the day and their T-38-85 tanks, ZSU anti-aircraft platforms and BTR-40 and -50 swept the Communists to victory. This fine book brings details and images of all these diverse weaponry to the reader in one volume.
- Series Statement
- Images of war
- Uniform Title
- Images of war.
- Alternative Title
- Rare photographs from wartime archives
- Subject
- 1946 - 1975
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Tank warfare > Pictorial works
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Campaigns > Pictorial works
- Indochinese War, 1946-1954 > Tank warfare > Pictorial works
- Indochinese War, 1946-1954 > Campaigns > Pictorial works
- 89.87 weapons, arms and armor
- Military campaigns
- Tank warfare
- Vietnamkrieg
- Panzer
- Panzerwagen
- Vietnam
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- Contents
- Tanks -- Armoured personnel carriers -- Armoured fighting vehicles -- Armoured support vehicles.
- ISBN
- 9781781593813
- 1781593817
- LCCN
- 2015490750
- OCLC
- ocn893163773
- 893163773
- SCSB-13559894
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library