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Zack Parsons

My Tank Is Fight! Paperback – October 3, 2006

by Zack Parsons (Author)

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Soldiers that fly!
Tanks that fly!
Cruisers that . . . sink!

What Fight Have Been

My Tank Is Fight! contains a humorous and exciting examination of twenty real inventions from World War II that never saw the light of day. Each entry includes full technical details, a complete development history, in-depth analysis, and a riveting fictionalized account of the invention's success or failure on the battlefield. Lavish color artwork and technical illustrations are falling from the pages of this book like toenails from a trench foot.

Dive under the Atlantic in the turreted U-Cruiser, or rule its surface from an aircraft carrier made out of ice. Shred bomber formations in a high-performance flying wing fighter and then rocket to your untimely end from the cockpit of your very own suicide missile. We've got a pair of German armored land vehicles for you that are so large they had to be powered by naval engines!

My Tank Is Fight! delivers the thrilling action of the Second World War as it might have been with a touch of humor and a lack of class. Only the slow-witted are reading this anywhere other than in line at the cash register. Ask an adult to help you if you're still not sure you want to buy the book.

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English
Publisher

Citadel
Publication date

October 3, 2006
Dimensions

5.98 x 0.78 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

0806527587
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Soldiers that fly! Tanks that fly! Cruisers that . . . sink!
WHAT FIGHT HAVE BEEN
My Tank Is Fight! contains a humorous and exciting examination of twenty real inventions from World War II that never saw the light of day. Each entry includes full technical details, a complete development history, in-depth analysis, and a riveting fictionalized account of the inventions success or failure on the battlefield. Lavish color artwork and technical illustrations are falling from the pages of this book like toenails from a trench foot.

Dive under the Atlantic in the turreted U-Cruiser, or rule its surface from an aircraft carrier made out of ice. Shred bomber formations in a high-performance flying wing fighter and then rocket to your untimely end from the cockpit of your very own suicide missile. Weve got a pair of German armored land vehicles for you that are so large they had to be powered by naval engines!

My Tank Is Fight! delivers the thrilling action of the Second World War as it might have been with a touch of humor and a lack of class. Only the slow-witted are reading this anywhere other than inine at the cash register. Ask an adult to help you if youre still not sure you want to buy the book.

About the Author

Zack Parsons and SomethingAwful.com have been making people stupider over the Internet since 1999. If Zack were more secure in his sexuality, he would have a framed picture of Roger Mudd on his wall with a pink heart drawn around it, and for him, watching History's Mysteries is like riding with Indiana Jones and a little Asian kid in a coal car through a volcano.

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Publisher : Citadel; Later Printing edition (October 3, 2006)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0806527587
Item Weight : 11.4 ounces
Dimensions : 5.98 x 0.78 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,476,203 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,437 in Conventional Weapons & Warfare History (Books)
- #14,815 in World War II History (Books)
- #39,308 in Humor (Books)

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S.T.

Would have been better as a novel

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2015

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Parsons writes convincing and engaging historical fiction which helps to flesh out how these WWII oddities may have been used on the field. However his technical and historical sections are riddled with strange metaphors that really should have stayed in one of his weekly SA updates. When I buy a physical book, my standards are much higher, and in this case the historical portions were not very interesting and odd - not to mention...he didn't add much that couldn't be found through wikipedia.

So why three stars? 1) his historical fiction writing is really good and I found myself caring for his characters. 2) I didn't have high expectations.
Had this been a novel incorporating his characters, I'd have been sold. He certainly creates far more believable and likable characters than Tom Clancy.

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WryGuy2

A better book than it should be ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2011

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What happens when you mix 19 mostly German, mostly secret weapons projects from World War II, with a semi-technical explanation of the system and what would have likely happened if the system had been fielded, along with a fictional vignette of the weapon in action, all done with a bit of off-the-wall humor? Surprisingly, in the case of "My Tank is Fight", by Zack Parsons, you get a fun to read book that both educates (although educates is a relative term when you're dealing with secret projects that in some cases didn't even get off of the drawing board) and entertains.

I got the book pretty much on a whim, and I have to admit that my expectations were fairly low. But Mr Parsons offers some good, valid analysis on the projects and provides a realistic projection of whether the system would have been successful. And the part I thought would have been the book's weakest part ... the fictional vignettes ... by and large added to the fun.

The projects are generally grouped into "Land", "Air", and "Sea" categories. While I'm fairly well versed in World War II history, a few of the projects were new to me and learning something about them was a pleasant surprise. If you're a World-War II buff, and are looking for something to put on your guilty pleasure book list, give this title a try.

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Bobby Sain

Great book if you enjoy military books.

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2013

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This book deals with war machines that might of been during WW2. Almost all of them dealt with the Germans trying to build super weapons even the atomic bomb. The details are good but i wish they would of included the english standard units along with the metric system. The hypothetical settings of when the weapons would of been released are good but i think a lot favors luck for the allies. The characters in the hypothetical scenarios were good but kind of hard to remember from story to story after reading the technical details. However the book was very good.

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John Quinby

Found this completely by accident, everything went better than expected.

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2011

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I was browsing the interwebs the other day and came across a picture of someones books about WWII and saw this book on their shelf. My curiosity became instantly piqued and I decided to see what it was all about. After reading reviews here on Amazon and checking out other info about it I picked it up for my Dad for Father's day. He loves it! My Dad is a big History/War buff and he has been enjoying reading this book. He says he hasn't laughed this hard while learning about some of the most random and weird things from WWII. Thank you for writing such a fantastic book. I wish more books were written like this. I plan on picking a copy up for myself within the next few weeks.

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Maxwell Patterson

An interesting mix of fact and fiction

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2018

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As someone casually interested in the more technical details of these weapons, this felt like a perfect mix of fact-based descriptions (with a healthy dose of humor) and speculative fiction that gave an interesting context to what could have been fairly dry material.

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RebelScum

Great art, great writing, great topic.

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2013

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What a fascinating and fun look into the weird world of Third Reich technological hubris. A Nazi space station? A tank the size of a house? HILARIOUS by itself and Zack Parsons makes it even funnier with his unique and irreverent writing style.

Also, I'm not sure but I think this may be Parson's first book so you should buy it to help support a cool new writer.

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Roy Johnson

Brilliantly written, very funny, and incredibly informative. Great illustrations, too!

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2016

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This book deserves to be back in print. A must-buy for any WWII buff or anyone with a military interest in general.
It is amazing what minds will come up with in desperate times.

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Jay Bazzinotti

i expected a lot more.

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2017

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i expected a lot more. this book is cited a lot.

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Mathieu Gaudreault

Funny book whit real information on secret design of the ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2016

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Funny book whit real information on secret design of the third reich. Its for the amateur historian and at all chapters it has a chapter of what if the weapon would have been depolyed. The only thing I can complain about its that the author could have talked about other porjects like H class battleship or the Ameriak Bomber but that ok because its deranged ideas. Worth it.

James Bessant

Quite educational.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 10, 2015

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Very interesting book on what could have been in world war 2 as regards the different ideas for tanks each side had. Also a funny story woven into it.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2014

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great product good service many thanks

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Otto Norbert

Admittedly, it's schlock!

Reviewed in Germany on July 4, 2018

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Of course this book can't hide that it's fascinated by the grotesque. That's the main point of it. The author tries to handle the subject with as much respect as possible and even makes the point that the effort put into pointless megalomaniac programs will have shortend the war, but it's of a simple taste.

M. Brummell

Well written and very funny

Reviewed in Canada on October 10, 2006

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This is now one of my favourite books. I read all of Mr. Parsons' Weird-WWII articles on SomethingAwful long ago, and I pre-ordered the book as soon as it became available. Normally, I take weeks to plow through even short non-fiction - but I zipped through this book in 2 days, laughing at every page.

The organisation of the book and individual chapters is well done and consistent, with the fictional parts ("Hypothetical Deployment History" and "What Fight Have Been") packed with thoroughly entertaining speculation. Parsons' commentary on the foolish ideas and strange personalities behind them provided me with uncontrollable laughter throughout, despite the fundamentally scary scenarios, like a Nazi nuclear weapon.

On the discussion over at Amazon.com, some are worried that the book may be inappropriate for those people that might be offended by the language and attitudes of SomethingAwful.com. Let me assure you, this book would be appropriate for almost anyone interested in the stranger side of World War II. There is no profanity (that I can recall, anyway) except perhaps one or two in-character expletetives in the fiction parts. The only people who get gratuitously insulted are Hitler and other senior Nazi party officials and a couple of odd-ball British and American inventors who pushed just a little too hard on their more outlandish ideas.

Summary: great read, very funny, and I'm really hoping that a sequel gets written soon.

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