TY  - BOOK
AU  - HARRIS J P
AU  - TOASE F H (joint editors)
TI  - Armoured warfare
SN  - 0312052316 (hbk.)
PY  - 1990///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - ARMOURED WARFARE
KW  - GERMANY
KW  - ISRAEL
KW  - VIETNAM
KW  - SOVIET UNION
N2  - A documented account of armoured warfare worldwide and look towards the future.  This analysis shows what a crucial role armour continues to play today.  Though the tank was a British invention, it was the Germans in 1940 which first demonstrated the power of all-arms armoured divisions to determine the course of the campaign.The Soviets also used massed armour as part of their increasingly sophisticated 'operational war'.  Armour plays an important role  and a decisive instrument to Israel and later in the Vietnam war.  Mutual deterrence developed out of necessity to prevent a nuclear exchange
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