Soviet Tank Units 1939-45 - The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide

by David Porter

The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Soviet Tank Units, 1939-45 offers an highly-illustrated guide to the main armored fighting vehicles used by the Red Army during World War II. This compact volume includes sample unit structures and orders of battle from company up to corps level, providing an organizational context for key campaigns throughout the war.

Organised chronologically, the book offers a comprehensive survey of Soviet-employed armored fighting vehicles by campaign, including the German invasion of 1941, the defence of Moscow, the Stalingrad counter-offensive, the battles of Kharkov and Kursk, Operation "Bagration," and the final defeat of Axis forces in Berlin, Vienna, and Budapest in May 1945.

All the major and many minor tanks are featured, including every variation of the BT fast tank, T-26 light tank and T-34 to see action on the Eastern Front. The guide also includes numerous Lend-Lease AFVs - such as the British Churchill and US Sherman tanks - as well as many examples of Soviet light vehicles, self-propelled guns, tractors, and trucks.

Packed with 250 full-color artworks and photographs with exhaustive specifications, The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Soviet Tank Units, 1939-45 is a key reference guide for military modelers and World War II enthusiasts.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2009

About the author

David Porter was born and raised in Tuscola, Illinois, and has been writing professionally since 1984. He is owner/publisher of three newspapers: The Tuscola Review, Arcola Record-Herald and Lebanon Advertiser.

He previously worked as Director of Communications for the Illinois Press Association and served as president of the Southern Illinois Editorial Association.

His book, The Make-out Room & Other Stories, is a compilation of 123 newspaper columns with a wide variety of subjects. Light reading.

His wife, Jennie, is a Kindergarten teacher in Tuscola. The two were classmates having first met in Kindergarten.

Note: Goodreads links all books written be people of the same name. The only book from me as of Nov. 29, 2020, is The Make-Out Room & Other Stories.

Reviews

[Paul Tisserant · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent reference book. Not coffee table reading!