Light Tanks T-27, T-38, BT, T-26, T-40, T-50, T-60, T-70 – Mikhail Beryatinskiy

Book description : There are few battles in the sometimes bloody history of the expansion of the United States in North American during the Indian Wars that are more famous than Little Bighorn. The romantic view of Custer’s last stand against marauding hordes of Indians has achieved iconic status but the reality was somewhat different, as recent research has shown. The Battle of Little Bighorn was the culmination of a process of attrition between the Native Americans and European settlers. On 25 June 1876 this clash of cultures was settled by force of arms as the 7th Cavalry under Custer came upon a huge Indian camp by the Little Bighorn River. The resulting battle was the stuff of legends, but legends based on misconception and hearsay – no members of the 7th Cavalry survived to tell their tale and the Indians recorded their triumph in pictographs and oral memory, long undeciphered by historians…

Editorial Reviews : This 96 page softcover volume is even more comprehensive than the title suggests, covering the tanks in the title and additionally the Russian Renault; T-18/MS-1; Vickers E; Christie Original; T-17; T-37; PPG; T-30; and T-80. For the BT section there is coverage of the BT-2, 3, 5, 7, 7M/8. In the text are lots of manufacturing, acceptance and in service numbers, and good descriptions of the development and service history. …