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  • A11 Infantry Tank Mk.I A Technical History
    P.M. Knight
    The Infantry Tank Mk.I was birthed nefariously under the pseudonym of Matilda due to the various intrigues that afflicted the War Office’s tank development organisation in the pre-war era. These in turn were caused by pecunious circumstances and the strong differences in the ideas favoured by the major proponents of armour policy. Designed as a small two-man tank to accompany...
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    42,62 €

  • Terrapin 8 x 8 Amphibian A Technical History
    P.M. Knight
    The Terrapin 8 x 8 Amphibian was designed by John I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd. to a specification from the War Office for an amphibious vehicle with a limited life that could be employed for a period of a single operation. The vehicle was intended to supplement the American 6 x 6 DUKW amphibian, which was only expected to be available to the British in limited numbers. As it was...
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    32,80 €

  • Crusader & Centaur Anti-Aircraft Tanks A Technical History
    P.M. Knight
    The various Crusader and Centaur anti-aircraft tanks were the products of a long and tortuous development process over which time the enormous complexity of the problem of dealing with aerial targets emerged. In contrast to ground targets, aircraft could appear unexpectedly from any direction and complete an attack in mere seconds, while their relative velocity would increase ...
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    47,69 €

  • Crusader Gun Tractor A Technical History
    P.M. Knight
    The Crusader Gun Tractor was conceived as a means of pulling the heavy 17 pounder anti-tank gun while at the same time utilising any excess production of the obsolescent Crusader tank. In practice, it would prove to be a superlative towing vehicle, but its origin as an armoured fighting vehicle would necessitate a high level of proficiency on the part of its crews. An inadver...
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    30,35 €

  • A25 Harry Hopkins Tank & SP3 Alecto A Technical History
    P.M. Knight
    The Harry Hopkins was a light tank designed by Vickers-Armstrongs at Chertsey as an intended improvement to their previous Tetrarch model, featuring thicker armour and a more ergonomic internal layout. Unfortunately, it met much the same fate as the earlier vehicle due to the doubts of the War Office as to the efficacy of light tanks in general. After an aborted inititative t...
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    36,65 €

  • A17 Tetrarch Tank A Technical History
    P.M. Knight / P.MKnight
    The A17 Tetrarch tank incorporated a revolutionary suspension system designed by Leslie Little, the chief engineer at Vickers-Armstrongs’ tank development facility at Chertsey in Surrey. Its evolution occurred just at the time that the Light tank role was being supplanted by armoured cars, and only a hundred examples were built. Nevertheless, the advanced features of the Tetr...
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    44,17 €

  • A13 Mk.I & Mk.II Cruiser Tanks A Technical History
    P.M. Knight / P.MKnight
    The A13 Cruiser Tank was created by Colonel Giffard Le Quesne Martel after he had witnessed the performance of the fast Soviet BT tanks while on a military mission to Russia in 1936. These had in turn been developed from a prototype tank designed by the mercurial American engineer J. Walter Christie. The British Army quickly imported one of Christie’s tanks and set about modi...
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    45,97 €

  • A43 Black Prince Tank A Technical History
    P.M. Knight / P.MKnight
    The A43 Black Prince arose from the need for a 'Super Churchill', armed with the powerful 17 pounder anti-tank gun that could augment the firepower of the standard Churchills within the tank brigades. The resulting machine would prove to be both durable and reliable during evaluation testing, and promised to be an effective weapon in the hands of users. However, the war would...
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    30,41 €

  • A13 Cruiser Mk.V Covenanter Tank A Technical History
    P.M. Knight / P.MKnight
    The Covenanter was intended to be the main equipment of the Armoured Divisions during the early years of the Second World War, and was a generally reliable tank that was well suited to its primary task of home defence. Due to a rather convoluted series of events, mainly involvingmaterial shortages, it would not see service overseas, and as Britain’s strategic circumstances evo...
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    41,19 €

  • A34 Comet Tank A Technical History
    P.M. Knight / P.MKnight
    The A34 Comet was the ultimate iteration of the Cruiser series of fast, mobile tanks, and built on the hard lessons that had been learned with earlier designs. However, it was also brought into being at a time when British industrial capacity was nearing exhaustion, and when officialdom already had one eye on the transition to more profitable peacetime production. As such, th...
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    40,31 €

  • A30 Challenger Tank A Technical History
    P.M. Knight / P.MKnight
    2025 Completely Revised Edition.The A30 Challenger was devised during 1942 as a means of mounting the powerful 17 pounder anti-tank gun on the chassis of what was intended to be the British Army’s next Cruiser tank, the Cromwell. The subsequent development programme was subject to a degree of controversy as to the role and efficacy of such a vehicle, and, in the event, only 20...
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    42,57 €

  • A15 Cruiser Mk.VI Crusader Tank A Technical History
    P.M. Knight
    There can be few tanks that have proved as controversial in their deployment as the Crusader, a tank that was invested with high hopes on its entry into service in 1941. This book investigates in unprecedented detail the issues that impinged on its service life. Drawing extensively on original archive sources, a new perspective is drawn on both the employment of the tank its...
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    35,41 €

  • Atlas of Skin Pathology
    A.G. Knight / P. Laidler / R.M. Marks
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    140,61 €