Review

I have received a new title from Script Publisher Services which is the first in a new series from Fonthill. This is a hard backed book with the pages glued in I believe rather than stitched. The pages are a good quality semi-gloss stock; so these pages display the pictures very well. The text and font in this title are of a size and style that I can read easily despite getting old. The title looks at the German panzers in an order that does not follow history ; however that does not concern me. The author of this volume is Craig Moore, an author I am not familiar with and so I enclose a small amount of text I found online about him.

: Craig Moore is a writer and editor for www.tanks-encyclopedia.com and www.tank-hunter.com, a guide to where you can find surviving WW1 and WW2 tanks. He has had an interest in military history since childhood. Eight of his close relatives fought in both World Wars: only six survived. One of his uncles lost a leg when his Sherman tank was hit during Operation Totalize in Normandy 1944. In 2017 he was part of the team that recovered a buried British WW2 Covenanter tank from a Vineyard in Surry. He lives in London but regularly visits tank museums and archives around the world:

The contents of this title are laid out as follows:

British Trasting of the Czechoslovakians-built Praga TNH-P 8 ton Tank IPanzer 38(t) in 1938

The Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf.A Light Tank

Poison Gas Bullet Attack Trials on a Panzer III

Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausführung D

Wire-mesh Skirting on German Tanks

The E 100 (Entwicklung 100) Super Heavy Tank

Fiat Ansaldo Autoblinda AB 41 Italian Armoured Car Trials

The Wilton-fijenoord Panterwagen Armoured Car

The Mouse: A German One-man Light Tank Proposal

Schildkrote Panzerspahwagen Light Amphibious Turtle Armoured Car

The text in this book is a mix of Ministerial reports and information from the author; regardless of which side of the information you are interested in both are worth taking in as there is decent nuggets of information here. The section that was of great interest to me is the section covering the E 100. I will admit that I am aware of a good amount of information provided in written text, but there are still some nuggets worth digging up. Looking through this section provided a huge number of good quality images of the E 100 with many being offerings I was unaware of.

The photographs in the title are a great reference in many areas due to the detail shots of the interior elements of a number of the vehicles covered. The images also have a well written caption in English and that avoids using complicated words that can confuse. I did not see any colour photographs in the title but the black & white offerings are excellent. I will also say that if you are looking at a title for images only then this title does a good job of meeting that requirement.