Packed with more than 500 outstanding photographs, drawings, and diagrams, this illustrated history is the best source ever to the development of Allied tanks, gun motor carriages, and special-purpose vehicles in World War Two. Military enthusiasts and history buffs will pore excitedly over pictures of each type as well as the many variants--which sometimes run into the dozens. Not one is missing: more than 2,000 vehicles come with detailed specifications, comparative scale drawings, and appendices dealing with guns, engines, and suspension systems.
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Peter Chamberlain has been writing on tanks and other armoured vehicles for more than 30 years. He is known and respected in enthusiast circles around the world.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent one volume survey of US/Brit/Commonwealth Tanks,
By Ray King (Morgan Hill, Ca USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: British and American Tanks of World War Two: The Complete Illustrated History of British, American and Commonwealth Tanks, 1939-45 (Paperback)
Like its German companion volume, this work on American, British, and Commonwealth tanks is comprehensive and detailed. At slightly over 200 pages, it is terse but it covers a multitude of variations and tank equipment. For example, in the US M4 Sherman series, it gives descriptions of 26 mine clearing devices, 16 Sherman variations, 9 flame-throwing devices, and also covered SP conversions, recovery vehicles, experimental vehicles, and more. Then it goes to the British variants and equipment and covers them in similar detail. There are pictures aplenty and useful appendices covering, among other things, the major weapons carried by these tanks. I didn't give it 5 stars only because I thought it could have used more operational information on the different vehicles. All in all though, for an inexpensive one volume source book on American / Brit / Commonwealth WWII tanks, I have not met its equal.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not comparable to Encyclopedia of German Tanks,
By Roy Metselaars (Weert, Limburg Netherlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: British and American Tanks of World War Two: The Complete Illustrated History of British, American and Commonwealth Tanks, 1939-45 (Paperback)
I bought this book because I was impressed by its counterpart on German armor. I was disappointed to notice that it doesn't live up to that standard. Where the 'German' book covered each version with technical data, this book often simply summed up all known versions, with a very brief description, often not even mentioning in service date (year) and production numbers. For example, the 24 pages long M4 Sherman section only contains 2 'technical' specification listings.... Same goes for the British Churchill tank section, only a single technical spec list. On the positive side are the sections on more obscure models and prototypes, almost all with illustration(s).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
allied tanks,
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This review is from: British and American Tanks of World War Two: The Complete Illustrated History of British, American and Commonwealth Tanks, 1939-45 (Paperback)
In many ways not up to standard with its German partner, Encyclopedia of German tanks of World War Two. Armor is not given section by section breakdown, but maximum and minimum. Allied armored cars, which were quite numerous, are not listed, unlike their German equivelent. But on the positive side, an appendix of british and American tank armament is included in the back that is in far more detail than the one provided in the German one which is excellent reading. And the same can also be said of engines. A good refurence in regards to the British, American, Canadian and Australian tanks and their sub types.
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