Anti-tank weapons today are sophisticated items of hardware, but in World Wars I and II, many improvized weapons were used to knock out tanks. This work contains accounts of infantrymen who disabled tanks by pouring petrol over the engine casings and igniting it; pushing graneades down the barrels of tanks; and dropping bombs through open turrets to kill crews. As well as descriptions of hand-held anti-tank weapons, included in the book are anti-tank guns, mobile tank destroyers and anti-armour ordnance used by the tanks themselves. There are also chapters on the aircraft that have been developed and modified since World WQar II to kill tanks, such as the A-10 Thunderbolt and the Russian SU-25 Frogfoot.
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Just For Men,
By Michael G Schwern (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tank Killing Anti Tank Warfare By Men (Hardcover)
While there is a long history of tanks being attacked and successfully disabled by dogs, bears, women, flood, fire and Martians, this book is only about men killing tanks.If you want to know about women or bears killing tanks, this is not the book for you.
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Ian Hogg made a good book, about anti-tank warfare,
By Dalton C. Rocha (Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tank Killing Anti Tank Warfare By Men (Hardcover)
I read this good book, here in Brazil. This book was writen by Ian Hogg(1911-2003). This good book has eight chapters and an index.
The first chapter (Tanks - and how to kill them) is an introduction and an overview about the book's subject. The second chapter (One-man anti-tank weapons) is about anti-tank rockets, anti-tank rifles and recoil-less guns. Chapter six (The smart weapons) is about anti-tank missiles. Chapter seven (Out of the sky) is about anti-tank aircrafts and helicopters. *********************************************** This is the table of contents of this good book: 1 Tanks - and how to kill them 1 2 One-man anti-tank weapons 33 3 The anti-tank gun 65 4 Tank destroyers 104 5 Tanks against tanks 131 6 The smart weapons 170 7 Out of the sky 203 8 Mines, traps and bare hands 230 Index 263 *********************************************** Even so, I have to give four stars, not five, because: 1-Anti-tank rifle grenades don't have almost any space, in this book. Please, anti-tank rifle grenades aren't used by British Army since about fifty years ago, but many third-world countries remains using anti-tank rifle grenades as an important anti-tank weapon. 2-On page 30, this book claims that ERA(Explosive reactive armour) was invented by Israelis. In fact, it was invented by Manfred Held. I think that Manfred Held is a German. Beyond doubt, Manfred Held isn't an Israeli.
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