Valentine Infantry Tank 1938-45
2016
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The Valentine was the most produced and most widely used British tank of the Second World War. The Valentine first saw combat during Operation Compass in November 1941 and remained one of the main medium tanks in British service into 1943. As the Churchill became more prevalent the Valentine was relegated to specialist and tank-destroyer variants, which would remain in service in the Far East to the end of the war. This book describes the evolution of the Valentine design and weighs up its impact on the battlefield. Although widely regarded today as one of the weaker tanks to be fielded during the war, it was exceptionally numerous, with more Valentines produced than any other British tank.
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Bruce Oliver Newsome
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Bruce Oliver Newsome, Ph.D., writes true history books, weighty analyses of homeland security and counterterrorism, and the laugh-out-loud satire of our woke, post-truth, Covid times. "The Dark Side of Sunshine" is a comic and complex novel in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and P.G. Wodehouse. Bruce Oliver Newsome has held standing faculty appointments at the University of California Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. He currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas. Before teaching, he consulted to governments while employed at the RAND Corporation. He is not related to the Governor of California, who is one letter short of a full surname.
