Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two: The Complete Illustrated Directory of German Battle Tanks, Armoured Cars, Self-propelled Guns and Semi-tracked Vehicles, 1933-45 Weidenfeld & Nicholson military ( 16 September, 1999 ) Book Our Price : £ 14.00 List Price : £ 20.00 You save £6 (30% off) Prices subject to change. usually dispatched within 24 hours.

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One of the first books I ever bought when I became interested in military modelling was the hard back version of this book. Mine is now a loose leaf edition and so I decided to buy this paperback version. It is without doubt THE best reference you can get on WW2 German AFVs, covering all you need to know about tanks, armored cars and hal-tracks used by the Third Reich with all the photos you could ever need. You will refer to it time and time again as it covers everything from PzKfw 1 to King Tiger and beyond. Giving such things as dates of production, details of variants etc and for the real anoraks amongst us, even chassis numbers! If you need to tell the difference between a PzKw Mk IV Ausf J and Ausf K this is the book for you!

This is the "train spotting book" for German tanks

This is just an outstandingly detailed collection of the vast amounts of tanks and armoured vehicles in the Wehrmacht. Not only does it give detailed information on each model and variant but also the production numbers which indeed resulted in my absolutely amazing of how the German army did so well in the early ears of the war. Anyone who is interested in the history in those years should get this as it gives a good understanding of the unbelievable technical and operational achievements during the later years of the war. To augment my comment, one cannot stress enough that although this is a very impressive piece of work as an Encyclopaedia it subsequently does not touch on the horrors these tools of death where used for (that is not a complaint, just a comment).

A truly great book

I recently bought this book, and it has to be said never have I encountered such detail. Firstly, it covers all german tanks and their variants developed and bulit fromm 1933-45. Secondly, it also covers any conceivable detail you cuold imagine. It tells you the manufacturer, radio set, angle and thickness of armour, even wether or not the turret was hand turned or not! Then it tells you about changes made to captured allied tanks, covers (in great detail) the radios, weapons, supplementary armour and total building amount of every german tank of world war two. Well worth buying.