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Tank Killing Anti Tank Warfare By Men

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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.

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.
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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
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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.