Tucker Jones: 49 books
Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
At 21:00 on 9 May 1940 Codeword Danzig was issued alerting Adolf Hitler's airborne troops that they were about to spearhead an attack on Belgium and the Netherlands. The following day his blitzkrieg rolled forward striking the British Expeditionary Force and the French armies in Belgium and in northern...
Spitfire to Reaper
The Changing Face of Aerial Warfare - 1940-Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Since the Luftwaffe’s 1940 Eagle Day attack on Britain, aerial warfare and its accompanying technology has changed almost beyond recognition. The piston engine was replaced by the jet and the pilot in some cases has been completely replaced by a computer. Carpet bombing became GPS and laser pinpointed....
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The Battle of the Bulge took the Allied armies by surprise in 1944. It was a result of the extraordinary recovery of Hitler’s panzer divisions following crushing defeats on the Eastern and Western fronts. In a daring offensive he hoped his panzers would unhinge the American and British push on the...
The Iraq War
Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The Iraq War is a visual record of the American-led Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, which resulted in the dramatic overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein. In a striking sequence of photographs Anthony Tucker-Jones shows how this was achieved by the American and British armed forces in a lightning campaign...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
The North African campaign, the struggle of the Italians and Germans against the Allies in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia between 1940 and 1943, was a war of movement and maneuver, of dramatic changes of fortune, and it was a war in which mechanized forces - tanks in particular - excelled. Compared with...
The Battle for the Caucasus 1942–1943
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
In late 1942 Hitler's forces advanced far into the Caucasus in the southern Soviet Union in one of the most ambitious offensives of the Second World War, but this extraordinary episode is often forgotten-it is overshadowed by the disastrous German attack on Stalingrad which took place at the same...
Kursk 1943
Hitler's Bitter Harvest
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
In 1943, as war raged along the Eastern Front, the German forces attempted to push further east in the brutal Operation Citadel, which saw one of the largest armoured clashes in history in the Battle of Prokhorovka. Countered by two Soviet attacks, this battle saw the tide turn on the Eastern Front....
Iran-Iraq War
The Lion of Babylon, 1980–1988
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
The bloody eight-year Iran-Iraq war is now almost forgotten, overshadowed by the subsequent Gulf War and Iraq War. However, it is best remembered for the unique so-called ‘Tanker War’ which threatened to strangle the world’s oil supplies. At the time Tucker-Jones as a defence analyst wrote extensively...
German Assault Guns and Tank Destroyers 1940 - 1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The assault guns and tank destroyers deployed by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War are not as famous as tanks like the Tiger and Panther, but they were remarkably successful, and they are the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones's wide-ranging photographic history. As the conflict progressed, the...
Armoured Warfare in the First World War
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
A hundred years ago, on 15 September 1916, on the Western Front during the Battle of the Somme, the tank made its debut on the battlefield. The first tanks were crude, unreliable, vulnerable weapons, but they changed the character of land warfare forever, and Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history...
The Afghan War
Operation Enduring Freedom 1001-2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Drugs, war and terrorism were the unholy trinity that brought the US-led air campaign crashing down on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in October 2001 in Operation Enduring Freedom, and this photographic history is a graphic introduction to it.
The immediate aim was to eject the Taliban from...
D-Day 1944
The Making of Victory
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Two years earlier the Dieppe Raid had ended in disaster – despite their meticulous planning the Allies feared Operation Overlord might go the same way. Instead D-Day proved an incredible success; however, what followed was marred by serious mistakes on both sides resulting in three months of bitter...
Armoured Warfare from the Riviera to the Rhine 1944 - 1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
While the Allied armies were deadlocked with the Germans in Normandy after D-Day and even as they broke out and began their long advance, another campaign was being fought against the Germans in southern France – and it is this campaign, which is often neglected in accounts of the liberation of...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Operation Market Garden, September 1944, the Netherlands. Three parachute drops and one armored charge. The prize was the last bridge at Arnhem over the Neder Rijn. Taken intact it would provide the Allies with a backdoor into Germany – the famous ‘Bridge Too Far.’ This was one of the most audacious...