Featuring hundreds of photos from the national archives, diagrams, and detailed specifications, Hunnicutt's Firepower remains the definitive developmental history of the heavy tank for the military historian, professional soldier, and tank restorer.
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Featuring hundreds of photos from the national archives, diagrams, and detailed specifications, Hunnicutt's Firepower remains the definitive developmental history of the heavy tank for the military historian, professional soldier, and tank restorer.
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** First Edition **; Good++ in a Good++ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy overall with one tiny chip to the bottom edge, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Very light wear to the boards with "straight" edge-corners; Unblemished textblock edges; Moderate foxing inside each cover and to the opposite endpapers; Text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); 3.2 lbs; White jacket with tank illustration & title in black lettering; 1988, Presidio Press; 224 pages; "Firepower: A History of the American Heavy Tank, " by R. P. Hunnicutt.
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** First Edition **; Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with just minor edgewear and one small edge-tear, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Very light wear to the boards with "straight" edge-corners; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); 3.2 lbs; White jacket with tank illustration & title in black lettering; 1988, Presidio Press; 224 pages; "Firepower: A History of the American Heavy Tank, " by R. P. Hunnicutt.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. 4to. Presidio Press, Novato, CA. 1988. 450 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Featuring hundreds of photos from the national archives, diagrams, and detailed specifications, Hunnicutt's Firepower remains the definitive developmental history of the heavy tank for the military historian, professional soldier, and tank restorer. This ambitious entry in R. P. Hunnicutt's 10-volume compendium of American tank history details the development of the heavy tanks from its initial conception in World War I to its final development in the 1960s. First developed after WWI, various iterations of the heavy armored military vehicle have served as a crucial component of American military operations in all manner of engagements. Hunnicutt spares no detail as he examines the origins and deployment of the Mark VIII and TI and M6 in the 1930s and 1940s. First conceived as a vehicle to be used for infantry support, by the end of WWI, the heavy tank had evolved into the modern concept with a powerful turret mounted antitank gun protected by heavy armor—a fighting machine in its own right. Hunnicutt provides detailed technical information about these vehicles and their role in the U. S. Army and Marines. The M103A product-improved descendant of the T43 tanks and its many variations is also treated with exacting detail by Hunnicutt, who takes us through the numerous and important variations on the heavy tank design. EB; 11.70 X 8.80 X 1.20 inches; 450 pages.