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Title: M10 and M36 Tank Destroyers 1942-53 by P. Sarson, M. Badrocke, Steven J. Zaloga ISBN: 1-84176-469-8 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good History of the M10 Tank Destroyer...
Comment: This book describes American tank destroyer development from the unauspicious beginnings with the cheesy M5 that constantly broke down, various prototypes that weren't put in production, and halftrack mounted guns to the effective M10 and M18 76mm gun tank destroyers. Several pages describe the conversion of M10s with a new turret armed with a 90mm gun which became the M36 tank destroyer, the shortage of M10 hulls requiring some to be completed with Sherman tank hulls, as well as the British M10C Achilles armed with the much vaunted 17-Pounder gun.
After reading this book, I feel it should have been titled "The M10 Tank Destroyer...Oh Yeah, And The M36 Too". While I had no idea before reading this book that M36 tank destroyers are mostly converted M10s and also are not officially called 'Jackson', the deployment history of the 90mm M36 series feels abbreviated. Like Zaloga's M4A3(76mm) Sherman 1943-1965 book, post-war use is sparse, with only a page and a quarter of text but several nice pictures and caption commentary filling in for the laconic state of the post-war section. I certainly would have appreciated more details on how some of these foreign customers of the M10 and M36 used them; instead, the nations are described in passing, such as the Western European allies, Egypt, South Korea, Pakistan, and Yugoslavia, with no unit descriptions or how they fared in battle. It really is unfortunate that considering the Zaloga quality of work of the development and deployment of the M10 76mm gun tank destroyer, the M36 90mm gun tank destroyer appears like an afterthought that was appended merely to flesh out a book about the M10.
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Title: M4 (76Mm) Sherman Medium Tank 1943-65 by Steven J. Zaloga, Jim Laurier ISBN: 1841765422 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: M26/M46 Pershing Tank 1943-53 (New Vanguard, 35) by Stephen J. Zaloga, Tony Bryan, Jim Laurier ISBN: 1841762024 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: M8 Greyhound Light Armored Car 1941-91 (New Vanguard 53) by Steven J. Zaloga, Tony Bryan, Osprey Publishing ISBN: 184176468X Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Panther Medium Tank 1942-45 (New Vanguard, 67) by Stephen A. Hart, Jim Laurier ISBN: 1841765430 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: M3 & M5 Stuart Light Tank 1940-1945 (New Vanguard Series, 33) by Jim Laurier, Steven J. Zaloga ISBN: 1855329115 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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