Not so much hot but warmishly on the heals of the magnificent RAF in the Cold War album in this series comes this equally as riveting book by Michael Green. He has shown himself to be a no nonsense bloke who does good work and this fantastic look at the Vietnam War ticks all the right boxes for me. I’ve mentioned it before but work in the vast photographic archive of a newspaper group who at one time had the legendary Don McCullin on the staff. Now, for whatever reason his Vietnam material is no longer in the collection but for many years a print of one of his colour shots hung on the wall in one of the catacombs of the old picture library. The pic showed a couple of truculent looking chaps sitting on top of an M113 while an M48 tank rumbled off down a jungle path. As shots go it was pure Coppola imagery and I always liked it but after a while I realised there was something very wrong and one day – bazinga! The photo was printed back to front. Now anybody who claims to know a bit about armoured vehicles should have spotted it straight off, but fortunately I don’t ever make such a claim so I can just about get away with it. The reason for telling you this nonsense is it leads me into the nuts and bolts of this book. Mr Green looks at a whole range of armoured vehicles
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