Hi,

Also posted in the 'wanted to buy' section, but thought I might try here to get some info about what's out there. Have searched Amazon and can't seem to find much. Would like to know what any of you guys think is good.

I'm looking for any books, photographs, magazines, etc about the Israel Defense Forces. Looking for items with photos for my reference collection. Interested in small arms, armor, special units, campaigns, etc.

Thanks!
Steve

Get ready:
S. Katz, Fire & Steel (Pocket Books)
Steve Zaloga, Armour of the Middle East Wars (Osprey)
S. katz: Israeli Defence Forces since 1973 (Osprey)J. Laffin, M. Chappell: Isreali Army in the Middle East Wars 1948-73 (Osprey)
S. Katz: Isreali Special Forces (Motorbooks International)
S. Katz: Modern Isreali Tanks and Combat Vehicles (Arms & armour Press)
S. Katz: Isreali Elite Units since 1948 (Osprey)
S. katz: Isreal's Armor Might (Concord )
M. Mass IDF Tiran 4, 5 and 6 (Verlinden Warmachines)
? Israeli M4 Sherman and variants (Verlinden Warmachines)
S. Katz: Israel's Cuttibng Edge (Concord)
S. Katz: Battleground Lebanon (Concord)
related: S. Katz: Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars
Also, I think by Zaloga, but I can't put my hands on it, Concord has tank Battles of the Middle East.

I don't know how many are in preint right now. Also, Katz has several glaring errors,as when he describes the folded TOW tripod as spare missiles. #:-)

There are also 2 books on the tank based APC's one is called Wild and Crazy Cats.. and the other is... doh! brain cramp..

I've got them both at home, I got mine at AMPS but you can order them from Australia.
I'll the the titles, authors and ISBN's when I get home.

Mike

http://idfmodelling.free.fr/
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/gill/
http://www.israeli-weapons.com/israeli_weapons.html
Hope this helps.

www.israeli-weapons.com is the sbsolute BEST for reference

ok home with the reference library.

they are Israeli Wild and Cruel Cats pt 1 by Tzukduian and Manasherob ISBN 965-90347-0-9

and

Military Briefs 2 Israeli Tank Based Carriers by Gelbart ISBN 0-9577586-1-8
published by Mousehouse enterprises www.webone.com.au/~myszka

Mike

Thanks for the lists guys! Unfortunately, most seem to be out ot print, so it may take some searching.

Saw some on the used book sites. But, they want $30 for a Concord book that's only a few years old!

Steve

Hi steve,
You might want to check out my site I've listed all the books that I have and some I know about with small notes as to content. you can find alot of them on ebay or through ABEBOOKSEARCH. I would however say that at some point especially the older(48-73 books ) the pics get redundant. If you need specific help ask here or on the Yahoo groups Idf group at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/idf_armour/

or if you speak and can type hebrew the Israel modeller site

http://www.geocities.com/israelmodeler/

My site is at

www.homestead.com/shiryon/index.html

Josh Weingarten Aka shiryon

Hi, one of the online sourses that I use for my purposes is "waronline" site, it is mostly in Russian, but nevertheless the part of it is in English

the collection of real fotos: http://www.waronline.org/en/IDF/index.htm

besides a forum in english is working

Will check it out!

Thanks for the info and welcome to the Armorama site! Do you live in Israel?

Steve

If there are specific questions you have or an image you need, let me know at my e-mail ([email protected]) and I'll see what I can do about getting you the sepcific info, image, text, etc.

I recommend Waronline as posted earlier. Great site. Mostly Russian though but IIRC, it has an article on the different Merkava variants, IDF OOB, and lots of pictures. One of the site contributors/staff is Tzefa who you could catch also at TankNet (www.tank-net.org)