Book Review of Images of War
Tank Wrecks of the Eastern Front 1941-1945
Rare Photos From Wartime Archives
Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones
Pen & Sword Publishing
ISBN: 9781473895003
By Ray Mehlberger
MSRP: $22.95
ISBN: 9781473895003
By Ray Mehlberger
MSRP: $22.95
Four years of armored battle on the Eastern Front in WWII littered the battlefields with the wrecks of destroyed and disabled tanks, and Anthony Tucker-Jones's photo history is a fascinating guide to them. It provides a graphic record of the various types of tank destroyed by the Red Army and the Wehrmacht during the largest and most destructive confrontation between mechanized armies in military history.
During the opening stages of the war, the German victors regularly photographed and posed with destroyed Soviet armor. Operation Barbarossa left 17,000 smashed Soviet tanks in its wake, and the heavy and medium tanks such as the T-28, T-35, KV-1 and the T-34 proved to be the source of endless interest.
Once the tide turned the wrecked and burnt-out panzers - the Mk. IV's, Tigers and Panthers - were photographed by the victorious Red Army.
As well as tracing the entire course of the war on the Eastern Front through the trail of broken armor, the photos provide a wide-ranging vision archive of the tank types of the period that will appeal to everyone who is interested in tank warfare and to modelers and wargamers in particular.
The book is soft-cover of 141 pages in 7 1/2" x 9 3/4" page format.
The cover shows a knocked out German Pz.Kpfw. III photo over 3 smaller photos of other knocked out tanks. These 3 photos are too inky to make out the types.
Chapters of black and white photos are on:
1. The Soviet T-26
2. The Soviet BT-7
3. The Soviet T-28 & T-35
4. The Soviet KV-1
5. The Soviet KV-2
6. The Soviet T-34
7. The German Pz.Kpfw. III
8. The German Pz.Kpfw. IV
9. The German Tiger
10. The German Panther
Plus a listing of other similar books.
I want to thank the folks at Casemate Publishing who sent me this review sample and the folks at Pen & Sword publishing.
All Pen & Sword listing can be seen on Casemate's web site at:
During the opening stages of the war, the German victors regularly photographed and posed with destroyed Soviet armor. Operation Barbarossa left 17,000 smashed Soviet tanks in its wake, and the heavy and medium tanks such as the T-28, T-35, KV-1 and the T-34 proved to be the source of endless interest.
Once the tide turned the wrecked and burnt-out panzers - the Mk. IV's, Tigers and Panthers - were photographed by the victorious Red Army.
As well as tracing the entire course of the war on the Eastern Front through the trail of broken armor, the photos provide a wide-ranging vision archive of the tank types of the period that will appeal to everyone who is interested in tank warfare and to modelers and wargamers in particular.
The book is soft-cover of 141 pages in 7 1/2" x 9 3/4" page format.
The cover shows a knocked out German Pz.Kpfw. III photo over 3 smaller photos of other knocked out tanks. These 3 photos are too inky to make out the types.
Chapters of black and white photos are on:
1. The Soviet T-26
2. The Soviet BT-7
3. The Soviet T-28 & T-35
4. The Soviet KV-1
5. The Soviet KV-2
6. The Soviet T-34
7. The German Pz.Kpfw. III
8. The German Pz.Kpfw. IV
9. The German Tiger
10. The German Panther
Plus a listing of other similar books.
I want to thank the folks at Casemate Publishing who sent me this review sample and the folks at Pen & Sword publishing.
All Pen & Sword listing can be seen on Casemate's web site at:
Highly recommended.