Dick Taylor
Dick Taylor started his service in the British Army at the tender age of sixteen as a Junior Trooper at the Junior Leaders Regiment Royal Armoured Corps in Bovington. After completing training he served with 3RTR and 2RTR. As well as being a tank commander, he was a specialist in tank gunnery. He was commissioned as a captain in 2000 into 1RTR and left the regular army as a lieutenant colonel in 2013, although he has since been mobilized for operational service three times for tours overseas. During his long career he completed fifteen operational deployments to various hot spots including three tours of Afghanistan, two to Iraq, as well as Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and South Sudan. He is the official historian of the Royal Armoured Corps, has an avid interest in modern and military history and writes military history books for a hobby. His most recent publication is The Second World War Tank Crisis: The Fall and Rise of British Armour 1919-1945.-Pen&Sword Books
Books
- Armoured Warfare in the British Army, 1914-1939
- Armoured Warfare in the British Army, 1914-1939
- Second World War Tank Crisis
- Matilda Infantry Tank Enthusiasts' Manual
- Challenger 1 Main Battle Tank
- Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1945-2020
- Firing Now!
- Chieftain Main Battle Tank 1966 to Present
- The Men Inside The Metal The British Afv Crewman In Ww2
- Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1939-1945
- Challenger 2
- British infantry tank MK. III Valentine
- Into The Valley The Valentine Tank And Derivatives 19381960
- ISAF vehicles, Afghanistan 2007
- British Infantry Tanks in World War II
- Before the Birth of the MBT
- Guns from the East
- Second World War Tank Crisis
- Warpaint - Colours and Markings of British Army Vehicles 1903-2003 Vol. 2
- Panzer III
- British cruiser tank A34 Comet
- Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1939-1945
- Real Weathering
- Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank Owners' Workshop Manual
- Warpaint Colours And Markings Of British Army Vehicles 19032003
- Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1945-2020
- Warpaint
- The Men Inside The Metal The British Afv Crewman In Ww2
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