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T-60. Small Tank & Variants
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Red Machines Vol. 1
KINNEAR James, PASHOLOK Yuri: T-60. Small Tank & Variants
Red Machines 1
Englisch, 176 Seiten, über 250 s/w- und Farbabbildungen, Zeichnungen, gebunden
The T-60 small tank was the third most numerous tank-type built in the Soviet Union during the 1941-45 “Great Patriotic War”, behind only the T-34 medium tank and the SU-76 self propelled gun in terms of production output. Though often maligned in later years as being under-armed and weakly armoured, the T-60 performed a crucial role during the difficult years of 1941-42 when Soviet manufacturing plants struggled to replace combat losses at the front.
The history of the T-60 is the history of a single tank type, set against a background of the initial months immediately following the launch of “Operation Barbarossa” on 22nd June 1941, with staggering losses of territory, troops and equipment at the front and the consequent Soviet struggle to maintain production at a time when the main Soviet military production facilities were being evacuated on rails to the Urals and Siberia beyond.
Biographical Note:
James Kinnear was born in Great Britain in 1959, and has researched the topic of Soviet and Russian military hardware since his first visit to the enigmatic and mysterious Soviet Union as a young teenager in 1973. James has written hundreds of articles on Soviet and Russian military technology. A Russian speaker, he has studied the subject from within the military intelligence community and as a civilian author.
Yuri Pasholok was born in 1979 in Moscow. He began to seriously study the history of armoured vehicles from 2002, when working as a historical consultant on various game projects relating to the Second World War. From 2008 to 2013 Yuri worked within the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War, during which time he also published his first book on armoured vehicles. Yuri’s main focus is now the study of the development and history of Soviet armoured vehicles in over the period 1920-1950.
