When the Red Army needed to mechanize its cavalry branch in the 1930s; the BT fast tank was its solution. Channeling the American Christie high-speed tank; the Red Army began a program to adapt the design to its own needs. Early versions were mechanically unreliable and poorly armed; but by the mid-1930s; the BT-5 emerged; armed with an excellent dual-purpose 45mm gun. It saw its combat debut in the Spanish Civil War in 1937 and was later used in the border battles with the Japanese Kwantung Army in the late 1930s. The final production series; the BT-7; was the most refined version of the family. One of the most common types in Red Army service at the beginning of the Second World War; BT tanks saw extensive combat in Poland; Finland; the opening phases of Operation Barbarossa in 1941; and the 1945 campaign against the Japanese in Manchuria. This is the story of their design and development history.
#4187206 in Books Jessica Yirush Stern 2017-02-20Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.21 x .75 x 6.14l; #File Name: 1469631474268 pagesThe Lives in Objects Native Americans British Colonists and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Trade Rather Than One-Sided Gift-Giving in Native-British RelationsBy Anna FaktorovichJessica Stern presents an alternative story of the trade relationship between Native Americans and the British; explaining that both sides mixed gift giving and commercial trade; rather than Native Americans being the unfairly treated party that gave gifts without gaining anything in return. The “Introduction†opens with an example of one exchange that began in 1716 when a Cherokee man was prevented from making a trade in Charles Town; South Carolina after an official oath taken after the Yamasee War; but the exchange still took place when the Governor Robert Daniel carried out a gift giving ceremony where the two parties exchanged ten beaver skins for a gun. This is an example of how gift giving could be a two-way stream with both parties giving gifts of equal value as they would in any trade of goods; only the exchange is marked as a way to honor and show mutual respect for the other party. This seems like a great argument: I could never imagine why Native Americans would keep offering gifts if white settlers simply kept taking them without engaging in the traditional return of a gift for a gift. The book is scholarly and detached: the best sort of book. It carefully examines archival evidence of various instances of trade and gift giving between these groups and draws logical conclusions. This is a great book for historians writing American history textbooks; as they should definitely incorporate these ideas and avoid suggestions that devalue and sideline Native Americans contributions to the early American marketplace. The current sad state of Native American reservations makes this type of positive thinking about Native Americans as business-minded people essential for the resurgence of these impoverished regions. --Pennsylvania Literary Journal; Volume IX; Issue 1
