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CHAMBERLAIN, PETER & ELLIS, CHRIS: : PICTORIAL HISTORY OF TANKS OF THE WORLD 1915-45

LONDON.ARMS & ARMOUR PRESS,1979.

ISBN 0853684979.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st rpt.(1st edn was 1972,this edn 1979).FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,no clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial tanks decorated wraps with light shelf-wear and creases to edges.Head of spine/backstrip creased and bumped with foot of same lightly creased and a closed tear at foot to rear wrap - no loss.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.UK, Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st reprint,6-256pp includes preface/intro,1,000+ b/w photographs, bibliography,conversion tables,and vehicle index lists.Black paper-covered boards with blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers.Though the publisher credits are for Arms & Armour Press internally,there is a BCA colophon to boards' foot of spine/backstrip and no mention of BCA internally or to dw/dj.Book club books also have no ISBN,but this copy has one. The most complete pictorial history of the tank yet published (then 1972 or 79).Over 1,000 b/w photographs,plus data and development notes describe all the tanks produced for military service - including many rarely-seen experimental models and prototypes - from 1916, when the first 'land ships' ventured across the stalemate trenchscape of WW1,to 1945,at the close of a war dominated by the fast blitzkreig thrusts of massed tank divisions.Each major arms-producing country is represented - USA(244 photographs), Britain(283), Germany(103), Russia(106), France(71), Italy(46), Japan(44), Hungary (9), Poland(16), Czechoslovakia(26), Sweden(14), Canada(7), Australia(9), New Zealand(3) - and there is also a section devoted to the smaller countries which used or modified tanks from abroad (52 photographs).Each national section begins with a short survey of tank development in that country, providing the reader with the basic background information to place the comprehensive catalogue which follows firmly in perspective.The tanks themselves are described and illustrated in chronological order, so that the technological development of the tank per country can be traced as the pages are turned. Each vehicle is illustrated together with a comparative data tabulation and brief notes on design, production and performance.The remarkably large number of photographs in this volume - many of which are reproduced for the first time - provides a unique pictorial coverage of the history of tanks.A valuable reference tool,'Pictorial History of Tanks of the World' is an illustrated encyclopaedia without equal, and will be an essential part of any library,public or private,used for the study of 20thC warfare. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** q52.NAVAL/MILITARY.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st rpt.ISBN 0853684979.WW1+WW2 Armoured warfare_tanks. Armoured tanks_Land ships.HMilitary history of Tanks.SHERMAN amphibious tanks.CHURCHILL Flame throwers.PANZER_PERSHING_TIGER_TANKS.Books new, used,signed,rare.

UK,Qrto,HB+dw/dj,1st rpt.
Not SIGNED.

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