T-26 Light Tank: Backbone of the Red Army

by Steven J. Zaloga

This book surveys the development of the T-26 as well as its combat record in the Spanish Civil War, the war in China, the border wars with Poland and Finland in 1939-40, and the disastrous battles of 1941 during Operation Barbarossa.

The T-26 was the first major Soviet program of the 1930s, beginning as a license-built version of the British Vickers 6-ton export tank. Although the T-26 retained the basic Vickers hull and suspension, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472806255
• ISBN13: 9781472806253
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 9.5"