Complete Guide To Tanks & Armoured Fighting Vehicles

This features over 400 vehicles and 1200 wartime and modern photographs. It features A - Z visual directories of tank destroyers command versions specialized tanks armoured cars armoured personnel carriers and self-propelled artillery. It is an illustrated history of the worlds most important tanks and AFVs from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. It covers a range of tracked and wheeled vehicles including the No. 1 Lincoln Machine Little Willie" D-Day Funnies Jeep Multi-Role Vehicle M3 Half-Track Infantry Carrier Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank Scud Missile System Warrior Mechanised Combat Vehicle and many more. Specification boxes provide at-a-glance information about each vehicles official name country of origin date crew weight dimensions armament armour powerplant
and performance. This book is an authoritative history and directory of tanks and their immediate derivatives such as ARVs (armoured recovery vehicles) tank destroyers command versions bridgelayers mine-clearers and other Funnies and AFVs such as armoured cars armoured personnel carriers and self-propelled artillery covering a vast range of wheeled tracked and semi-tracked vehicles. From the worlds first tank "Little Willie" to the contemporary M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank the book covers a vast range of tanks and AFVs. This unique volume with over 1200 wartime and museum photographs brings together the most significant tanks and AFVs in military history."