Looking for suggestions for Christmas? Here's an idea. This arrived in the post from Australia:
It's just been published. Bruce Cameron commanded the last Centurion troop in action in Vietnam before Australia pulled out its tanks. He's written the definitive history of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps in Vietnam. It is certainly not a dry history. Bruce has spent more than a decade collecting photos and anecdotes from fellow crewmen and the two books cover the whole period of Australian armour in Vietnam. The publisher's blurb is quite long, so here's the link to one bookseller:
http://regimental-books.com.au/canister ... -2071.html
Here's a page to get a flavour of the action:
Armour was very successful in Vietnam, contrary to the expectations of many. If you tire of reading yet another account of Tigers at Kharkov or Shermans in Normandy, this is something different. Bruce Cameron has written it is such a way that the experience of tank warfare in the jungle really comes across. It's a cliche to say that I haven't been able to put it down.
Although I got my copy from Aus, I gather from the author that it is to be stocked by the Tank Museum Shop. It's a great read.
Regards.
Stephen