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Well, it has shipped...with a price increase to $75. 🤪 However, if you happen to be on the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington State, on Saturday 25 May 2024, I will be signing at the Kitsap Mall Barnes and Noble from 12:00 to 15:00. 😁 

 

https://www.amazon.com/American-Thunder-Design-Development-Doctrine/dp/0811773817/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1195R3TZRWK9Q&qid=1681839090&s=books&sprefix=american thinder,stripbooks,144

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2 hours ago, RichTO90 said:

Well, it has shipped...with a price increase to $75. 🤪 However, if you happen to be on the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington State, on Saturday 25 May 2024, I will be signing at the Kitsap Mall Barnes and Noble from 12:00 to 15:00. 😁 

 

https://www.amazon.com/American-Thunder-Design-Development-Doctrine/dp/0811773817/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1195R3TZRWK9Q&qid=1681839090&s=books&sprefix=american thinder,stripbooks,144

By a remote chance you wouldn't happen to be traveling through Indiana sometime?

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5 hours ago, Rick said:

By a remote chance you wouldn't happen to be traveling through Indiana sometime?

Sorry, but no. Maybe Chicago to visit my granddaughter sometime. 😀

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4 hours ago, sunday said:

Finished it. It is an excellent work, on the same level, or higher, of Ken Estes' Marines Under Armor, but extended to the whole Army and Marines. Does not replace Ken's book, however. There is enough focus on doctrinal matters, showing how doctrine drives development -with some interference by personal preferences- and there is a wealth of numerical data pretty well sorted in multitude of tables, that shows a lot of work was done. Could be pretty well a reference book on the matter for some years to come.

I feel operational histories of tanks are better covered than those of tank destroyers, but perhaps that falls off of the purpose of this work.

Enthusiastically recommended.

Thank you so much for the recommendation.

The 150 or so odd pages devoted to the Tank Destroyers got axed in editing. Can you guess why? Did you herniate yourself holding it? It's nearly 1.9 pounds - not quite a kilo for Yuropeens - as it is. Right now I am trying to finish my book on the 90th Infantry Division in Normandy - including my Dad's experience - and then will finish a separate Tank Destroyer organizational, doctrinal, and production tome to bookend with Mani Moran's excellent Can Openers.

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8 hours ago, RichTO90 said:

Well, it has shipped...with a price increase to $75. 🤪 However, if you happen to be on the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington State, on Saturday 25 May 2024, I will be signing at the Kitsap Mall Barnes and Noble from 12:00 to 15:00. 😁 

 

https://www.amazon.com/American-Thunder-Design-Development-Doctrine/dp/0811773817/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1195R3TZRWK9Q&qid=1681839090&s=books&sprefix=american thinder,stripbooks,144

A great opportunity was missed by not having this signing at the Kitsap Regional library, it would be the culmination of all Tanknetinesh...

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1 minute ago, RETAC21 said:

A great opportunity was missed by not having this signing at the Kitsap Regional library, it would be the culmination of all Tanknetinesh...

Which one? Downtown Bremerton? Sylvan Way? Both nice libraries. Port Orchard, Poulsbo, and Kingston are nice too. Then there is the new Silverdale branch, but I haven't been to that one yet. Kitsap has a great library system and is a great place to live. Don't tell anyone, but we also have the best weather in the CONUS.

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6 minutes ago, RETAC21 said:

A great opportunity was missed by not having this signing at the Kitsap Regional library, it would be the culmination of all Tanknetinesh...

But then you would have to set up a signing stall in front of one of those ARVN Armored Core M47's....

 

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4 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

But then you would have to set up a signing stall in front of one of those ARVN Armored Core M47's....

 

Curiously, I have yet to find any M47's on the Kitsap, despite nearly ten years now of diligent searching. I am beginning to think they might possibly exist only in TankNet lore...

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46 minutes ago, RichTO90 said:

Which one? Downtown Bremerton? Sylvan Way? Both nice libraries. Port Orchard, Poulsbo, and Kingston are nice too. Then there is the new Silverdale branch, but I haven't been to that one yet. Kitsap has a great library system and is a great place to live. Don't tell anyone, but we also have the best weather in the CONUS.

Sport! then you better stay off them conre durgs, if you know ur breech from ur mussel! :)

Once you hear that, you know you are in the correct library.

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1 minute ago, RETAC21 said:

Sport! then you better stay off them conre durgs, if you know ur breech from ur mussel! :)

Once you hear that, you know you are in the correct library.

Isn't it spelt liebrury?

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Just now, RichTO90 said:

Isn't it spelt liebrury?

Now, that's a good question... we will never know how that was written in LICspeak

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47 minutes ago, sunday said:

Well, another US Army peculiarity, then.

Yep. They had a remarkable set of them. 🤣 "Inclosure" instead of "enclosure".  M everything. Ordinal "d" instead of "nd" or "rd" so 2d and 3d insetad of 2nd and 3rd. I cud go on an on.

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16 minutes ago, sunday said:

Yes, you mention that in the book.

With over 800 pages before editing, I wrote more than a few things I have now forgotten I wrote. 😁

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27 minutes ago, sunday said:

You could have wrote it here, also.

Edit to add: Yes, it was here. The apparitions of the word inclosure do not include any sentence about terminological particularities of US Army-speak

Because I embraced them and now we are us.

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