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Harry Yeide is a foreign affairs analyst with the federal government in Washington, DC. He lives with his wife, Nancy, in Hyattsville, Maryland. Mr. Yeide is the author of eight books on World War II history, focusing primarily on US Armor. He has a website at yeide.net. Earlier this month he agreed to talk with Tank and AFV News.
Posted below is the second installment of the two-part interview.
Part 2: Fighting Patton
Harry Yeide is a foreign affairs analyst with the federal government in Washington, DC. He lives with his wife, Nancy, in Hyattsville, Maryland. Mr. Yeide is the author of eight books on World War II history, focusing primarily on US Armor. He has a website at yeide.net. Earlier this month he agreed to talk with Tank and AFV News.
Posted below is the first installment of the two-part interview.
Part 1: US Armor in World War II
Editors note: Some of you may have noticed the similarity between the name of this website and the long running publication AFV News. While the similarity in names was not intended, we have been fortunate to have gotten the attention of AFV News publisher and book author George Bradford of Ontario, Canada. Mr. Bradford has been kind enough to share his extensive knowledge of all matters pertaining to tanks and armored vehicles with us (and also catching some of our typos!) He has graciously provided us with a history of the AFV News Bulletin for us to share with our readers. While AFV News is no longer published, its legacy lives on at the AFV News Discussion Board at Com-Central. Mr. Bradford’s vehicle plans and blueprints are available at AFVplans.blogspot.
AFV News magazine 1966 to 2010
By George Bradford
I was about 32 when I first took a serious interest in armoured vehicles. At that time (about 1963) I published “ARMORED VEHICLES from their conception to the present times” a small illustrated booklet attempting to show little line drawings of every tank built to that date. This was sold to all the armour contacts I had at the time, and later to AFV News subscribers as well. At this time I had also been subscribing to a little wargaming magazine called “TABLE TOP TALK” by Jack Scruby out of California. I wrote a few articles and did some artwork to improve the cover design for Jack, and all this must have planted the seed for AFV News. There wasn’t much out there on AFVs, but Merberlen in the UK did have a nice series of Bellona plan view drawings coming along, for which I was assigned to do cover illustrations. Also out of the UK was the renowned series of AFV Profiles, which appeared on a regular basis.
For those who regularly visit forums such as World of Tanks, War Thunder or Tank Net, the name Ensign Expendable is a familiar one. The man behind the Ensign Expendable avatar is Peter Samsonov, creator of the website/blog Archive Awareness. Digging through online archives only made available since the end of the Cold War, Samsonov diligently posts on a daily basis, translating Soviet archive material into English for a North American audience. Armed with his blog, Ensign Expendable is a man on a mission, battling what he sees as a cold war legacy of negative perceptions in the West of Soviet tanks and armored vehicles.
For those interested in Soviet tanks of the Great Patriotic War (World War II), Archive Awareness has much to offer. [Read more…]
From the Editor: Last October I had agreed to do a phone interview of author Steven Zaloga for a piece that was going to run in Battlefield.scout.com. Unfortunately, Battlefield did not achieve their target readership numbers and the editor was forced to put it into hiatus before the Zaloga interview was posted. Rather than see it get lost, I received permission from the editor of Battlefield to publish the interview on my blog. I have since moved the interview from the blog to Tank and AFV News.com. I want to thank Battlefield for helping set up this interview and for Mr. Zaloga for giving his time. I highly recommend any book by Mr. Zaloga. Be sure to check out his upcoming book “Armored Champion” when it comes out this spring.
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