Another year has come and gone! If you follow this site or any of my social media, you know that it's been a busy one.
I'll start with my most recent accomplishment. Hetzer vs. SU-76M: Hungary 1945 hit the shelves just two weeks ago and it started out strong, trending as the #1 new release on Amazon in the Russian History category, #2 in German History, and #2 in Hungarian History, although it only seems to be in this category for the Canadian version of the site. If you're a fan of my writing, then you'll be happy to know that there is a healthy pipeline of work. I just submitted M3 Tanks vs Panzer IV: Eastern Front 1942 which explores the combat career of the Light and Medium Tanks M3 with the Red Army in the difficult months of the summer of 1942. I am in the process of writing yet another book for Osprey and there is another one that is complete but is delayed due to an acquisition of the publisher. Keep an eye on this blog for more updates on my books.
Speaking of the blog, tankarchives.ca is no more. I still own the domain and it will redirect to tankarchives.com, but none of the links to specific articles will work anymore. Update your bookmarks! Very old links pointing to tankarchives.blogspot.ca will still work though. Why? Who knows, some weird DNS thing probably. One day I might get around to figuring it out, but for now it's easier to just type .com.
Speaking of the blog, 2025 has been an incredible year. I got 2.75 million page views for a total of 12.9 million, almost a million for each year that I've been running this website. It's good to see that the old site is still getting attention as my priorities shift towards social media.
My Youtube presence keeps growing with 3000 new subscribers, half again as many as I got last year. this is in part thanks to mining fan favourites like huge guns, Lend Lease, and British military aid (technically not Lend Lease). My Facebook page is also inching forward with 2000 new followers but over 6 million new impressions. Who knows what's going on with Twitter/X analytics but engagement on Bluesky seems to be a lot higher despite a fraction of the followers. Most of my "fun" posts are on there for that reason, so check it out if you haven't already.
If you want more Tank Archives content, you can also check out my interview with Totally Tanked about British tanks in Soviet service that we recorded to promote British Tanks in the Red Army. There is another appearance that I'm going to make in someone else's show that I can't tell you about just yet, but it's going to be breaking new ground for me in terms of media.
As an aside, it seems that Sherman Tanks of the Red Army has gone out of print. You can still get a digital copy over at Pocketmags or it seems that illegal PDF copies have cropped up for free on lots of websites like Documen.pub or Ocean of PDF which I absolutely don't condone the use of and I'm only telling you here so you don't go to any of those websites by accident.
If you're planning to find your way to the Canadian Tank Museum, you might run into me. I'm commanding the T-34-85 crew in the Winter Warfare event this year and as usual Aquino Tank Weekend.
That's it for now. Happy New Year to all my readers and I'll see you all in 2026!
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