Amber Books Land Combat From WW1 to the Present Day

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Land Combat From WW1 to the Present Day
Amber Books Ltd

This is the second of three titles in this collection which were originally released in 2008, this one was originally released as Land Warfare. As with the Air Combat book reviewed HERE, the pace of improvements in technology and equipment has outpaced even this update. The book begins with the industrial revolution and the way it revolutionised war, which was borne out in WW1. There are some excellent pictures in this section and some useful profiles. The interwar years have only a few pages given over to them followed by WW2 which is pretty well documented, once again with some great period photographs. The next section, The Nuclear Age, covers everything from Korea, Cuba, Israel, The Falklands, and the first Gulf War, where it pretty much stops. Whilst the author does mention the extensive modern “Battlespace” it doesn’t go much further than that, or the way today's vehicles are networked to form a more cohesive force, (well, that’s the idea, isn’t it?). There is also no mention of the modern Russian vehicles from after the Yom Kippur War.

Conclusion
Once again, this is a very nicely produced book, that could have gone onto be great one, if it had had the more modern conflicts added, including what the Russian vehicles have been used in, particularly Afghanistan. I can’t really see what the update has accomplished with this title, and not knowing what was in the original I don’t know how much has changed. The pictures, maps and diagrams from earlier conflicts are great though.

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