544 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w photographs, colour drawings. "(D)etails over 900 tanks, armoured personnel carriers, tank destroyers, reconnaissance vehicles, armoured cars and self-propelled guns, from the British Mk I tank of World War I to the German Tiger of World War II, and the American M1 Abrams seen today. It covers not only the major manufacturers in the US, UK, Germany, France, and Russia, but also the vehicles produced by smaller nations, presenting a complete global commentary on the world's amoured combat machines. Organized by country, then by vehicle type, you will find the manufacturing history, key dates, and main theatres of action for each machine, as well as insights into the engineering attributes and limitations of each vehicle. Each entry includes a comprehensive specification table, detailing all the essential data: armament, crew, dimensions, speed, range, engine types and power output. With authoritative text and 1,000 photographs and high-quality colour artworks, many of them showing the internal components of the vehicles, (this) is a unique reference book - essential reading for experts and general military enthusiasts alike." Book is lightly cocked, minor corner wear, light wrinkling at top of spine, light shelf soiling on bottom of text block; place, date and signature in pencil on front free endpaper; tiny scuff on rear pastedown. Dust jacket has minor edge wear/wrinkling, light rubbing - mainly on rear panel, a few tiny dints and faint line indentations on front panel, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, light crease down middle of spine.

Tanks,  Armoured  Cars,  Personnel  Carriers,  Self-propelled  Guns,  Armored,  United  States,  Kingdom,  Britain,  France,  Germany,  Western  Europe,  Eastern,  Russia,  Middle  East,  Israel,  Pacific,  Australia,  Korea,  Egypt,  Iran,  Iraq,  Poland,  Czechoslovakia,  First  World  War,  Second  World  War,  World  War  II,  Tank  Destroyers,  Mk  1,  Tiger,  M1  Abrams,  Weapons,  Armament,  Specifications.