RobW wrote:Given the western allied tank armour the AP rounds may have been overkill anyway!
Are there any decent images of the funnies? Not doubting the quality of the book but I'm finding several specific books to be more useful than the general books.
If your interest is in a specific
tank or theatre of operations, then a dedicated history is more likely to be satisfying, I'd say. I have, for example, individual
tank appraisals in the Vanguard series on the Firefly, the Cromwell, and others.
This
book fulfils another need: it's an overall account of the (often unique) contents of the
Tank Museum archives. But includes reproductions of wartime pamphlets that have a clear novelty value for the military enthusiast, or the WW2
history buff. Examples include: 'Armored (sic) vehicle recognition'; the 'Tigerfibel' (that cropped up in a thread here..

); the 'Panzerfaust Pamphlet'; the 'Ammunition booklet'., and so on. They're all quality reproductions.
If by 'funnies' you don't mean 'the screaming abdabs', or WW2 seaside postcards with leery red-nosed gentlemen;....

then.. the
book does cover tanks like the Type 97 Chi-Ha, The Whippet, and the 'Big Wheel Tsar
Tank'., etc. Though not, it has to be said, in any great detail. It's just a very attractive coffee table
book with novelty features, and things you could frame or put on the wall, such as the Renault FT diagrams, or the Mk IV blueprint..etc.
As the title suggests, it spans 100 years, and for this reason it feels selective.

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"- Mark Twain.