Steven Zaloga is an author and defense analyst known worldwide for his articles and publications on military technology. He has written over a hundred books on military technology and military history, including “Armored Thunderbolt: The US Army Sherman in World War II”, one of the most highly regarded histories of the Sherman Tank. His books have been translated into Japanese, German, Polish, Czech, Romanian, and Russian. He was a special correspondent for Jane’s Intelligence Review and is on the executive board of the Journal of Slavic Military Studies and the New York Military Affairs Symposium. From 1987 through 1992, he was the writer/producer for Video Ordnance Inc., preparing their TV series Firepower. He holds a BA in history from Union College and an MA in history from Columbia University. Mr. Zaloga is also a noted scale armor modeler and is a host/moderator of the World War II Allied Discussion group at Missing-Lynx.com, a modelling website. He is a frequent contributor to the UK-based modeling magazine Military Modelling. He is a member of the Armor Modeling and Preservation Society.
Series
Books
Armored Attack 1944
U.S. Army Tank Combat in the European Theater from D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge
2011
Defense of the Rhine 1944–45
2011
Patton Versus the Panzers
The Battle of Arracourt, September 1944
2016
Omar Bradley
2012
Inside the Soviet Army
1987
M3 & M5 Stuart Light Tank 1940-45
1999
US Tank and Tank Destroyer Battalions in the ETO 1944-45
2005
St Lô 1944
The Battle of the Hedgerows
2017
Armored Thunderbolt
The U.S. Army Sherman in World War II
2008
Sicily 1943
The debut of Allied joint operations
2013
D-Day Fortifications in Normandy
2005
Rangers Lead the Way
Pointe-du-Hoc D-Day 1944
2009
Smashing Hitler's Panzers
The Defeat of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division in the Battle of the Bulge
2018
Operation Nordwind 1945
Hitler's last offensive in the West
2010
Sherman Medium Tank 1942-45
1993
HMMWV Humvee 1980–2005
US Army Tactical Vehicle
2006
Bagration 1944
The destruction of Army Group Centre
1996
US Armour Camouflage and Markings 1917-1945
1984
Modeling US Armor of World War 2
2009
T-62 Main Battle Tank 1965-2005
2009
M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle
1986
US Army Tank Crewman 1941-45
European Theater of Operations (ETO) 1944-45
2004
M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer 1943-97
2004
T-34-85 Medium Tank 1944-94
1996
Modelling US Army Tank Destroyers of World War II
2004
The M47 and M48 Patton Tanks
1980
Modelling the US Army M4 (76mm) Sherman Medium Tank
2006
M10 and M36 Tank Destroyers 1942-53
2002
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Robotic Air Warfare 1917-2007
2008
Metz 1944
Patton's fortified nemesis
2012
Modelling the US Army M4 (75mm) Sherman Medium Tank
2006
US Flamethrower Tanks of World War II
2013
M24 Chaffee Light Tank 1943-85
2003
The M47 and M48 Patton Tanks
1982
Tanks in the Battle of Germany 1945
Eastern Front
2022
Bazooka vs Panzer
Battle of the Bulge 1944
2016
George S. Patton
2010
German V-Weapon Sites 1943-45
2008
T-34-85 vs M26 Pershing
Korea 1950
2006
Stuart Light Tanks in action - Armor No. 18
1981
The Red Army Handbook 1939-1945
1998
Poland 1939
The Birth of Blitzkrieg
2002
Anzio 1944
The Beleaguered Beachhead
2005
Kamikaze
Japanese Special Attack Weapons 1944-45
2011
BMP Infantry Fighting Vehicle 1967-1994
1995
US Armored Divisions
The European Theater of Operations, 1944-45
2004
Soviet Bloc Elite Forces
1985
V-1 Flying Bomb 1942–52
Hitler’s Infamous “Doodlebug”
2005
Inside the Blue Berets
1995
M3 Infantry Half-Track 1940-73
1995
Operation Market-Garden 1944 (1)
The American Airborne Missions
2014
M4 (76mm) Sherman Medium Tank 1943-65
2003
Warsaw 1920
The War for the Eastern Borderlands
2020
Armour of the Middle East Wars, 1948-78
1981
US Airborne Divisions in the ETO 1944–45
2007
Early US Armor
Tanks 1916-1940
2017
T-26 Light Tank
Backbone of the Red Army
2015
IS-2 Heavy Tank 1944-73
1994
The Atlantic Wall (3)
The Sudwall
2015
Cherbourg 1944
The first Allied victory in Normandy
2015
French Tanks of World War I
2010
US Armored Units in the North Africa and Italian Campaigns 1942 45
2006
Tanks of Hitler's Eastern Allies 1941-1945
2013
T-72 Main Battle Tank 1974-93
1993
The Atlantic Wall (2)
Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and Norway
2009
Operation Cobra 1944
Breakout from Normandy
2001
US Marine Corps Tanks of World War II
1988
V-2 Ballistic Missile 1942-52
2003
M109 155mm Self-Propelled Howitzer 1960-2005
2005
T-90 Standard Tank
The First Tank of the New Russia
2018
KV-1 & 2 Heavy Tanks 1939-45
1996
M10 Tank Destroyer vs StuG III Assault Gun
Germany 1944
2013
Battle of the Bulge 1944 (1)
St Vith and the Northern Shoulder
2003
Operation Dragoon 1944
France's Other D-Day
2009
Panzergrenadier vs US Armored Infantryman
European Theater of Operations 1944
2017
Panzer IV vs Char B1 bis
France 1940
2011
The Kremlin's Nuclear Sword
The Rise and Fall of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces 1945-2000
2002
Operation Crossbow 1944
Hunting Hitler's V-weapons
2018
Panzer 38(t)
2014
Defense of the Third Reich 1941-45
2012
Armored Champion
The Top Tanks of World War II
2015
The Red Army of the Great Patriotic War 1941-45
1989
US Infantryman vs German Infantryman
European Theater of Operations 1944
2016
M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank 1982-92
1985
The Polish Army 1939-1945
1982
Staghound Armored Car 1942–62
2009
Amtracs
US Amphibious Assault Vehicles
1987
Blitzkrieg
Armor Camouflage & Markings, 1939-1940
1980
T-34 in action - Armor No. 20
1983
Remagen 1945
Endgame against the Third Reich
2006
Lorraine 1944
Patton versus Manteuffel
2000
T-64 Battle Tank
The Cold War's Most Secret Tank
2015
German Panzers 1914-18
2006
US Amphibious Tanks of World War II
2012
M7 Priest 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage
2013
The Atlantic Wall (1)
France
2007
Japanese Tanks 1939-45
2007
M8 Greyhound Light Armored Car 1941–91
2002
The Devil's Garden
Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day
2013
Jeeps 1941–45
2005
M1 Abrams vs T-72 Ural
Operation Desert Storm 1991
2009
Panther vs Sherman
Battle of the Bulge 1944
2008
T-34 vs StuG III
Finland 1944
2019
Eisenhower
2011
Scud Ballistic Missile and Launch Systems 1955-2005
2006
Ploesti 1943
The Great Raid on Hitler's Romanian Oil Refineries
2019
M4 Sherman vs Type 97 Chi-Ha
The Pacific 1945
2012
Defense of Japan 1945
2006
Armored Trains
2008
Panzer IV vs Sherman
France 1944
2015
Battle of the Bulge 1944 (2)
Bastogne
2004
M3 Lee/Grant Medium Tank 1941-1945
2005
Operation Pointblank 1944
Defeating the Luftwaffe
2011
Overlord
The D-Day Landings
2009
Mortain 1944
Hitler's Normandy Panzer offensive
2019
M26/M46 Pershing Tank, 1943-53
2000
Liberation of Paris 1944
Patton's race for the Seine
2008
Kasserine Pass 1943
Rommel's last victory
2005
Tanks in the Battle of the Bulge
2020
The T 34 Tank
2025
Gustaf Mannerheim
2015
Spanish Civil War Tanks
The Proving Ground for Blitzkrieg
2006
Red SAM
The SA-2 Guideline Anti-Aircraft Missile
2007
Battle of the Bulge
1983
D-Day 1944
Omaha Beach, #1
2003
T-54 and T-55 Main Battle Tanks 1944-2004
2004
US Anti-tank Artillery 1941–45
2005
Downfall 1945
The Fall of Hitler's Third Reich
2016
Tank War-Central Front
1989
Panzer III vs Somua S 35
Belgium 1940
2014
T-80 Standard Tank
2008
Siegfried Line 1944-45
Battles on the German frontier
2007
T-34 Medium Tank 1941-45
1994
M551 Sheridan
US Airmobile Tanks 1941-2001
2009
