Valentine Infantry Tank 1938-45 (New Vanguard)
The Valentine was produced in greater numbers by the British Commonwealth than any other model of tank and yet it generally receives little attention, as evidenced by the fact that this book is the 233rd in the series. Compared to its German and American counterparts, relatively little ink has been devoted to this vehicle, being limited to the old AFV Profile series from the 1970’s, the Museum Ordnance Special from the 1990’s and the more recent books on the Valentine by Dick Taylor.
Given the large number of Valentine variants and the relatively small page count, this book does not give much in-depth detail to any particular Valentine model. One deviation from previous New Osprey titles is the use of fairly large charts. These account for roughly seven pages of the book and are quite useful for providing the details of the various Valentine models in a concise manner. Also addressed in this book are the Bishop and Archer self-propelled guns as well as the ill-fated Valiant “assault” tank. Given the small page count of the New Vanguard series, it might have been better to address these other vehicles in a separate volume. Certainly, there is enough to say about the Valentine to fill two volumes of 48 pages. That said, Dr. Newsome has packed as much information into the book as the New Vanguard format allows.
Valentine Infantry Tank 1938-45 (New Vanguard)
. This book is slated for a May 18 rekease date.
is a rather substantial 400 pages and is published by Helion and Company.
A new addition to the Osprey Publishing New Vanguard line titled 
The new book “AFV Photo Album Vol. 2: Armored Fighting Vehicles on Czechoslovakian Territory 1945” is available. This hardcover book comes in at 176 pages and is authored by Marek Solar, Petr Dolezal and Vladimir Kos. The book is published by Canfora Grafisk. Copies are available through 
Osprey Books has posted on their website a survey asking people to vote on which title of the “Duel” series they would like to see.
The M1 Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV) is the newest and long expected addition to the M1 Abrams tank family. The M1 ABVs fielded by the US Army and US Marine Corps marked the end of a very long search and development by the US Armed Forces for a vehicle to clear mines, as well as one that can be used as a dozer to clear battlefield obstacles and to prepare firing positions. Today, the USMC fields 52 M1 ABVs and the US Army procured 187 vehicles.
The website for Casemate books is listing a March 16 releases for two books in the “World of Tanks” series published by Wargaming.net. These books were originally released in Russia and claim to contain research based on archival materials never before examined or published.
In 2012, the company that created World of Tanks, the phenomenal worldwide massive, multi-player online game, started publishing a series of books in Russian that utilized Soviet documents and archival materials that had never before been seen by outsiders or published in any language about the design, procurement, development, manufacturing, and combat employment of Soviet armored fighting vehicles (AFVs) during World War Two (the Great Patriotic War to Russians). Now these remarkable books are being published in English with the obvious aphorism The Russian View.
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