Jun 03, 2007 18:02
(I'm not counting the damn things because I'll end up looking like some thicky)
Even so:
'Death traps' by Belton Y. Cooper is an engineering-BOfH's-eye-view of US tank warfare from D-Day to Berlin. It boils down to 'The hardware's (specifically the M4 Sherman) shite. An aircraft engine in a tank? What cowboys put that in? I'll all have to come out.' Though that leaves out the grimly spot-on descriptions of the thing's failure-modes when shot at by the other side. Fine stuff.
'The Box' by Marc Levinson. A history of the shipping container. Yes, really.
weirdness oh no,
glasgow advice,
lee longlands