RED ARMY TANKS OF WORLD WAR II: A Guide to Soviet Armored Fighting Vehicles

Comprises an authoritative study of over 40 types of tanks that served with the Soviet armored forces before 1945. Details their development and use from the early days of the tank arm in the 1920s, through the purges of the late 1930s and the German invasion in 1941, to the epic tank battle of Kursk, and eventual victory in the streets of Berlin. Fully illus.