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The jeep was the urgent response from Bantam, Willys and Ford to a US Army request for a new military vehicle in 1940. It was, of course, the prospect of US involvement in the war which inspired this specification for a four-wheel drive, three-seater, with room for a .3in machine gun mount, a payload of 600lb, and a top speed of around 50mph; but the design process set in motion by this request was to have wide-reaching consequences, for the resulting machine has set the standards for small military vehicles ever since.
From North Africa to the Pacific; from Normandy to Burma, the jeep (and its many ingenious derivatives) served admirably, in difficult conditions, all over the world during World War II. The jeep's dramatic role in special forces units such as the SAS and Popski's Private Army did much to immortalize it in popular legend, but the real worth of the jeep, then and in later conflicts such as Korea, the Middle East wars and Vietnam, was in the invaluable support it gave the ordinary soldier.
Jeep Goes to War tells the remarkable story of this unique machine, and brings it right up to date with the latest in a long line of jeep-inspired military vehicles, the HMMWV (or "Hummer"), which played so prominent a role in the recent Gulf War. This beautifully illustrated and authoritative account of the achievements of the jeep in modern warfare, with well over 100 black and white and colour pictures, is a book that will fascinate the enthusiast of military history and the general reader alike. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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