Skip to main content

Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles- Visual Encyclopedia

By: Amber Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Reference Books (Amber Books)

Last Stocked on 8/6/2024

Product Info

Title
Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles- Visual Encyclopedia
Publisher
Category
Author
Robert Jackson
Publish Year
2009
Pages
448
Dimensions
9.25x12x1"
NKG Part #
2148139070
Type
Softcover

Description

Since World War I weapons of war have become increasingly more sophisticated as industrialization and computerization have taken hold in weapons design and manufacture. "Armored Fighting Vehicles Visual Encyclopedia" is a directory of more than 1000 of the finest tanks, jeeps, trucks, tank destroyers, wheeled and tracked infantry vehicles, amphibious vehicles, engineer vehicles, self-propelled artillery and armored cars built in the last 100 years. Arranged chronologically, the book provides a comprehensive visual guide to the development of 1000 of the most interesting, armored fighting vehicles that have seen service. Each featured vehicle is illustrated with an excellent full-color artwork in profile or three-quarter view, showing in great detail the features of the vehicle and the different color schemes used for different marks or for vehicles used in different theatres of war. Among the vehicles featured are such major names as the Abrams, Sherman, Panzer and T-34 tanks, and many more. With 1000 outstanding color artworks, "Armored Fighting Vehicles Visual Encyclopedia" is an authoritatively researched book that will be of interest to any followers of modern military history or land warfare. It features more than 1000 armored fighting vehicles from around the world. It includes more than outstanding 1000 detailed profiles and three-quarter view color artworks. It is arranged chronologically and by theme to give a historical overview of the development of fighting vehicles over the past century.