This book is an authoritative history & directory of tanks & their immediate derivatives such as ARVs (armoured recovery vehicles) tank destroyers command versions bridgelayers mine-clearers & other Funnies & AFVs such as armoured cars armoured personnel carriers & self-propelled artillery covering a vast range of wheeled tracked & semi-tracked vehicles From the world's first tank Little Willie to the contemporary M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank the book examines a vast range of tanks & AFVs This unique volume with over 1200 wartime & museum photographs brings together the most significant tanks & AFVs in military history