Japanese Tanks and Armoured Warfare 1932-1945

Introduction
Prologue
1 Innovation and Stagnation - Issues in Japanese Tank Development
2 A Mauling by the Red Bear - The Undeclared Border Conflicts with the Soviet Union
3 Three: 'Don't Miss the Bus' - Stalemate in China and the Expansion of the War into South East Asia
4 Bicycles and Tank Tracks - The Malayan Campaign
5 From Victory to Defeat - Burma, Java, and Guadalcanal
6 The Imitation Game - German Influences on Japanese Doctrine and Tank Design
7 A Miracle on Tarawa - The Against all Odds Survival of Volunteer Tank Crewman Chief Petty Officer Tadao Onuki
8 The Road to India - The Imphal Operation
9 Breaking the Deadlock - The Continental Cross - Through Operation in China
10 Carnage on Red Beach - Saipan
11 'The Enemy Must Be Annihilated' - The Defence of Luzon
12 Bloody Beaches - The Evolution of Island Defence Tactics
13 The Last Lines of Defence - Iwo Jima and Okinawa
14 Shattered Jade - The Homeland Defence Strategy and the Soviet Invasion of Manchuria
Epilogue
Appendix 1 The Kungchuling Mixed Brigade
Appendix 2 The Yasuoka Detachment
Appendix 3 Tank Groups
Appendix 4 The 1941 Army Mobilisation Plan
Appendix 5 Tank Divisions
Appendix 6 Japanese Armoured Tactical Principles
Appendix 7 Principal Japanese Tank Models
Appendix 8 Principal Japanese Self-Propelled Guns and Tank Destroyers, Appendix 9 Japanese Tank and Armoured Fighting Vehicle Production 1931-1945
Appendix 10 Tank Guns
Appendix 11 Communications
Appendix 12 Maintenance
Appendix 13 Tank Crews
Appendix 14 Uniforms and Equipment
Appendix 15 Tank Schools
Appendix 16 Tank Commander Kojiro Nishizumi and the Japanese propaganda machine
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