This comprehensive volume takes you through the most exciting story in recent military history with the development of heavy artillery, anti-tank weaponry, and the men - such as Mikail Koshkin and Sir William Tritton - who designed these awe-inspiring beasts.

Produced with The Tank Museum, The Tank Book traces the tank's development in response to two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War and many other conflicts. It shows each model in detail, highlighting details such as their performance, specification, armour, weaponry, and much more. Laurie will admit that not being able to attend his second home ‘The Hawthorns’ to snap ‘The Baggies’ due to the restrictive health and safety issues imposed by the Premier League and the EFL, was very depressing and on his many long walks around the Essex countryside, he decided on a ‘mission’ to turn his historical knowledge of the football club into a writing a book, something he had yearned to do for many years, about one of his personal favourite chapters of the club’s proud history, the 1976 Promotion from the Second Division to the First, under the guidance of the great John Giles, and at the same time, raise some much needed funds for the Albion Foundation, who were, like all charities’ at that difficult time, struggling for funds. A catalogue with key features of each important vehicle, with detailed profiles and specifications. Pivotal to modern warfare, tanks have dominated the battlefield for over a century. Get up close to more than 400 military colossuses with this definitive visual guide to armoured vehicles.

Feature spreads broaden the scope of the book, profiling the designers and manufacturers who created the machines, and charting the evolution of tanks and armoured vehicles over the decades. The Tank Book is a comprehensive volume tha ttakes you through the most exciting story in recent military history with the development of heavy artillery, anti-tank weaponry, and the men - such as Sir William Tritton and Mikail Koshkin - who designed these awe-inspiring beasts. It shows each key model in stunning detail, highlighting elements such as their armour and weaponry, and so much more! This comprehensive volume takes you through the most exciting story in recent military history with the development of heavy artillery, anti-tank weaponry, and the men - such as Sir William Tritton and Mikail Koshkin - who designed these awe-inspiring beasts. It shows each key model in stunning detail, highlighting elements such as their armour and weaponry, and much more besides. This book, Laurie’s latest, moves in a slightly different direction, with the author following the life and times of his own football hero, Derek ‘The Tank’ Kevan, whose goal-scoring exploits, were a schoolboys dream, and dream Laurie did, of his hero, which led to the author’s first visit to the ‘Shrine’ on Boxing Day 1961, to see Kevan score in a one – one draw against Wolverhampton Wanderers.