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Military Vehicles: From World War I to the Present

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Han Halberstadt's "Military Vehicles from World War I to the Present" is factual and well illustrated, but limited in its scope. Halberstadt selects several military vehicles including tanks and scout vehicles to discuss. He provides exhaustive detail on each vehicle's design, strengths, weaknesses, and performance specifications. Along with these fact and figures, Halberstadt also includes beautiful photographs of the vehicles in question. Unfortunately, this book only includes a cross section of the types of military vehicles from the past and present. In his introduction, Halberstadt himself admits he selected the vehicles he was most interested in. As a result, this book is by no means authoritative. Over half of the book is dedicated to tanks, and although its supposed to include the World War I period, it barely touches on the vehicles from that conflict.

Despite these self-imposed limitations, this book does contain wonderful photographs and statistics on a select list of military vehicles, especially tanks from both sides of World War II.