Armored Fighting Vehicles: 300 of the World's Greatest Military Vehicles [Paperback]

Philip Trewitt (Author)

Book Description

Series: Amber Military Series | Publication Date: August 1, 2001

Starting with the crude and unreliable tanks that clashed on the Western Front in World War I, roll through years and on to the vehicles of World War II, such as the Panzer IV, Panther, Tiger, Sherman, and T-34, and right up to the most recent fighting machines, including the Abrams and Challenger, and Bradley and Warrior infantry tanks. 300 in all.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Friedman (August 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1586633023
• ISBN-13: 978-1586633028
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,966,671 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good quick reference, January 26, 2003

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Robert H Smith Jr (Highland Park, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Armored Fighting Vehicles: 300 of the World's Greatest Military Vehicles (Paperback)

Provides basic information on a wide variety of armored vehicles of all conceivable types. A little short on detail, with no photos (but good side view illustrations). Makes a good starter volume or quick reference guide.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Global Security guide, May 6, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Armored Fighting Vehicles: 300 of the World's Greatest Military Vehicles (Paperback)

Ever like to pretend you're a Romanian dictator on parade-ground watching your pet brigade of Belgian-manufactured SIBMAS infantry fighting vehicles go by? With a couple of battalions of spanking-new French AMX-40 tanks to beef them up, of course; never mind that noone ever ordered any AMX-40s at all, the real entertaiment in such reference manuals inevitably is in imagining how all these assorted vehicles would face off against each other in combats that, even in our contentious world, are unlikely to happen (Leopard IIs versus Leclercs? Not in this EU century); or, on a less grisly note, how much fun it would be to have your own giant deterrent force to fondly sink your national budget on (ever wonder if Pentagon wonks spend way too much free time playing Risk?). Covering the history of tanks and their lighter supporting vehicles ranging from self-propelled artillery (much of this including weapons also covered in this Barnes & Noble series' Artillery volume) and personnel carriers to reconnaisance armored cars and engineering vehicles, this allows the reader to ponder essential specs on these famous machines of war from Kursk to Desert Storm, accompanied by clearly drawn illustrations. Though there are a few oversights (the Soviet BMP-1 is absent, though the complementary BMP-2 as well as the airborne units' BMD-1 are featured), this gives you most of the information you need to know when pondering the state of the equipment in the NATO arsenals and that of the post-Soviet-client states that threaten them. Presumably up-and-coming designs like the new Stryker vehicles or France's much-anticipated VBCI infantry fighting vehicles will get included in subsequent editions. In the meantime, if you're shopping for a couple of armoured divisions, check this out first.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too much author opinion, too few details., April 13, 2003

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John Lyman (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Armored Fighting Vehicles: 300 of the World's Greatest Military Vehicles (Paperback)

It's good for quick referance, and there's a lot of content, but detail is somewhat lacking and the manner in which some information is presented can be misleading at times. Additionally, the author interdicts his opinion in several instances as fact in regards to which vehicles are better than the others instead of allowing the reader to draw that conclusion for themselves, which I felt lead to the book occassioanlly being self-contradictory.