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Special Forces Vehicles: 1940 to the Present Day (Images of War) Kindle Edition

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A highly illustrated guide to the unconventional vehicles that help special forces succeed in asymmetrical warfare, from the author of The Centurion Tank.

What is the ideal vehicle for special forces operations, for dangerous missions performed by small units of highly trained troops often working in enemy territory, behind enemy lines? And which vehicles have the world’s armies selected, adapted and developed since modern special forces established themselves as a key arm of the military during the Second World War?

Pat Ware, in this authoritative and highly illustrated book, uses all his expert knowledge of the history of military vehicles to show the fascinating variety of machinery that has been used, from converted Jeeps and Land Rovers to a bizarre collection of even more remarkable, sometimes purpose-built strike vehicles—the Scorpion, Cobra and Supacat Jackal, the LRDG Chevrolet, the Mechem, the Pinzgauer and the Warrior among them.

As well as describing the anatomy of the typical special forces vehicle, with particular reference to the iconic SAS Jeeps and the Land Rover “Pink Panther,” he illustrates all of the known special forces vehicles, giving technical data, including information on power units and transmission, type of weapons, auxiliary equipment, armored protection, speed and mobility, and weight. He also explains the nature of special forces and describes their historic origins, with emphasis on units such as the LRDG, the SAS and Popski’s Private Army during the Second World War, and he looks at modern special forces and their role.
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About the Author

Pat Ware is a leading expert on the history of military vehicles and a prolific writer of books and articles on every aspect of the subject. His most recent publications include a study of the military Jeep and encyclopaedias of military vehicles and motorcycles. He was the founding editor of Classic Military Vehicle magazine in 2001 and continues to contribute to the magazine as well as writing a military column for Land Rover World.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00CBJY11W
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword Military (October 24, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 24, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 79.9 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 251 pages
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2012
    Warriors and War Wheels

    Pat Ware presents an excellent introduction to Special Operations capable vehicles in his work "Special Forces Vehicles: 1940 to the Present Day" from the "Images of War" series. The book details the role of Special Forces and covers briefly a sampling of the predominate Special Forces units from around the world. Some of the countries covered are Russia, Israel, France, Britain, Germany, U.S., Australia, and others, coving historical vehicles and modern vehicles used in current conflicts like Afghanistan. The meat and potatoes of the book covers the anatomy of Special Forces vehicles and details on the particular vehicles employed by the units covered in chapter two. The focus of this book is predominately on wheeled vehicles from the Landrover and Jeeps to All-Terrain Vehicles and motorcycles to tactical dune buggies like the U.S. Fast Attack Vehicle (FAV). A lot of the pictures I have never seen before but many can be had on-line and/or are manufacture promotional photos. However this does not distract form the overall quality of the fine book. I highly recommend it to Special Forces historians with an interest in special forces mobility operations and interest in military vehicles or automotive history.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2017
    This is a very good book on the subject. It covers every vehicle (as far as I can tell) from the Long Range Desert Group and SAS in North Africa during WW II to the current era. The text provides a development history of each vehicle of several countries, primarily the US and Britain but with some coverage of French and German vehicles. There is also a chapter on the structure of Special Forces of several countries: US, UK, Australia, Germany, France, Israel, and Russia.

    There is only passing mention of the characteristics of the vehicles: dimensions and weights, speed, engine horsepower, suspension design, and so forth. There is much discussion of armament, though.

    A minor disappointment is that all the photos are black & white. I can understand why this would be the case for WW II, but color photography was easily available for the post WW II era. I suspect that for some reason (probably publishing cost) the color photos were printed as black and white. It’s definitely disappointing to read a caption describing the somewhat famous British “Pink Panther” Land Rover vehicles of the 1980s and then see a black and white photo. I have seen color photos of these vehicles and they are definitely cool!

    For more information on these types of vehicles and military light trucks, I recommend the following books:

    • “American Wheeled Armoured Fighting Vehicles” by Green (2016) – and the photos of the post-WW II vehicles are in color;

    • “Military Land Rover” by Ware (2007);

    • “The World Encyclopedia of Military Vehicles” by Ware (2010).
  • Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2016
    interesting coverage
  • Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2015
    Very Good

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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2017
    Arrived well within the specified time frame and an excellent reference guide.
  • pierre
    4.0 out of 5 stars i really like it
    Reviewed in Canada on December 27, 2013
    service was fast and i enjoyed reading it. i however thought i would be getting more information on ww2 jeeps used by us, british, cdn etc special forces.
  • A.K.LAKIS
    4.0 out of 5 stars SPECIAL FORCES VEHICLES ... A BIT SMALL ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2012
    Gents and Ladies this is another exellent book from the series "images of war" with exellent photos , explanatory ... BUT ... unfortunatelly with very few photos on WWII subjects , quite a lot missing at all , especially from the LRDG group , and it is not in chronological order , but jumps from on subject to another and back again , something in my humble opinion which is not very good exept for the exellent historian . Good modellers held for the more modern subjects , less for older . This one could also be helped by colour photos which are missing ...GOOD THAN THE LESS ...
    With all due respect
    Apostolos.
  • Smudger
    1.0 out of 5 stars Special Forces Vehicles 1940 To The Present Day
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 27, 2012
    I've got to be honest and say that this book is total and utter rubbish. It's poorly researched, inaccurate (The SAS don't used the MT350 and the picture is of a MT500) and there is better information on the web. Almost all of the pictures are recycled from other publications or taken at the War and Peace show of replica vehicles. In summary a real shame, I expected so much more so dont waste your money.

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