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Although Spain had been for many years on the periphery of the great affairs of Europe, within a few months of the Civil War breaking out in 1936, three out of the four major European powers-Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union-decided to intervene. Spain turned out to be the perfect proving ground to carry out controlled, realistic experiments with live weapons and troops. This book covers the theories of the three main contributors that provided...
3) Lotus Evija
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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590L
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"Engaging images accompany information about the Lotus Evija. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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An authoritative and fully illustrated study of the German military vehicles that fought in the Spanish Civil War-from motorcycles to Panzer Tanks.
This comprehensive volume examines the combat and logistics vehicles that formed a vital part of the German contingent fighting in the Spanish Civil War alongside Francisco Franco's Nationalist forces. The Panzer I, which so surprised the world in the Polish campaign of World War II, was first seen in...
8) McLaren 720s
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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520L
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"Engaging images accompany information about the McLaren 720S. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
10) Porsche Taycan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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600L
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"Engaging images accompany information about the Porsche Taycan. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
11) Bugatti Chiron
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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690L
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"Engaging images accompany information about the Bugatti Chiron. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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620L
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English
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"Engaging images accompany information about the Lamborghini Huracán Evo. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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The conception and evolution-through inter-war tensions, global war, and years of Cold War hostility-of the Royal Navy's large fleet destroyers.
The Tribal class destroyers are heroes of the Altmark incident, of the battle of Narvik, and countless actions across all theatres of operation. Yet there has been surprisingly little written about these critical ships, still less about their wartime successors, the Battle class, or their postwar incarnations,...
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By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht’s panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The tide of the war had turned. Their combined arms technique, which had swept Soviet forces before it during 1941 and 1942, had lost its edge. Thereafter the war on the Eastern Front was dominated by tank-led offensives and, as Robert Forczyk shows, the Red Army’s mechanized forces gained the upper hand,...
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The renowned historian and author of Normandy '44 recounts the operations and personal experiences of the legendary Sherwood Rangers during WWII.
One of the last cavalry units to ride horses into battle, the Sherwood Rangers were transformed into a "mechanized cavalry" of tanks in 1942. After winning acclaim in the North African campaign, they spearheaded one of the D-Day landings in Normandy and became the first British troops to cross into Germany....
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A British tank historian sheds new light on the UK's Cold War era research and development of cutting-edge military vehicles and anti-tank weaponry.
In the thirty years after the Second World War, the British army entered a period of intense technological development. Yet, due to the lack of surviving documentation, comparatively little is known about this period. What does survive, however, reveals the British Army's struggle to use cutting edge...
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The British Scorpion and Scimitar are among the most successful armored reconnaissance vehicles ever built and, almost fifty years after the initial design was introduced, updated versions are still in service today. These compact, maneuverable and fast-moving light tanks played a significant peace-keeping role in conflict zones around the world and went into action during wars in the Falklands, the Gulf and Iraq. They are also a popular subject with...
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The second volume in Dick Taylor's three-volume illustrated history of the evolution of armored maneuver warfare in the British army covers the period of the Second World War, in which the tank came of age and developed into the principal land weapon of decision. He describes how, during the first half of the war, the British army came close to disaster from the armored warfare perspective and how the bitter lessons of failure were learned in time...
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