Tanks

London: Octopus Books, 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 144 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Key to Symbols Used in Maps. Introduction by Aram Bakshian, Jr. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Tank Data Section. Index. This is one of the Modern Military series edited by Michael Leitch. The development of the tank from its inception in WWI to post-World War II. Includes studies on important tank designs, how tank armor works, and armor-piercing projectiles of World War II, plus an Analysis of the tank's Mission. Aram Bakshian, Jr. is the speechwriter to Presidents Nixon and Ford (promoted from Staff Assistant to Deputy Special Assistant in March 1974. In 1971, he served as the Special Assistant to Chairman of the Republican National Committee (Senator Bob Dole), and in 1970 as the Public Information Specialist with Federal Government. President Ronald Reagan brought Aram on during his first term initially in the Office of Public Liaison as a Special Assistant to the President (Arts, Humanities, Education/Academia, and International Affairs (1981), before he was hired as the Director of the White House Office of Speechwriting (1981-83). In 1987, President Reagan nominated him to a term on the National Council on the Humanities (1987-92). Following his years in government, Bakshian began his tenure as the editor-in-chief of the periodic journal the American Speaker (1992 until his retirement in 2009). Since 2014, he has been a contributing editor to The National Interest magazine.