Stalin’s ‘wonder Tank

"A wide-ranging and detailed account of the design and development of what was arguably the best tank of World War II." —Miniature Armoured Fighting Vehicles Association

At the start of the campaign on the Eastern Front, in the earliest days of Operation Barbarossa, it was the German armour that swept all in front of it as the Wehrmacht drove eastwards in an unrelenting advance on Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad. The ill-prepared and under-resourced Russian forces were forced to retreat. Gradually, the balance of the war swung in favour of the Russian forces, whose strength both in numbers and equipment proved decisive in the ultimate defeat of the German forces in the east. Critical in the Soviet victory was its armour; tanks such as the T-34 proving the equal, if not better than, some of the tanks available to the Germans.

Detailed coverage of the paint schemes and markings carried by Soviet armoured, mechanised, cavalry and infantry armoured vehicles in the period between 1935 and 1945. 153 colour profiles. 51 b/w photos. Polish / English text.