Booklist - British/Commonwealth Military Vehicles.

Unfortunately, Adam, I reckon I'm totally tonto!

Railways are my other weakness. I'll soon rival the national collection.

 

Bellona Handbook No 3: British Army Transport 1939-45 by M P Conniford, MAP Publications. In two parts:
Part 1: Tank Transporters, Recovery Vehicles & Machinery Trucks
Part 2: Gun Tractors, Bridging Vehicles & Ambulances

 

The Business of Tanks 1933 to 1945 by G.Macleod Ross, Arthur H Stockwell, 1976

Thought I might get stung paying £20 for it on a whim, but apparently not...

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=61040&stc=1&d=1315255733

 

First one posted already, and others mentioned in passing, but thought I'd properly list the whole set:

The Second World War 1939-1945: Army: Fighting Support and Transport Vehicles, and The War Office Organization for Their Provision: Part I - Common Problems, Campagnac & Hayman, The War Office

The Second World War 1939-1945: Army: Fighting Support and Transport Vehicles, and The War Office Organization for Their Provision: Part II - Unarmoured Vehicles, Campagnac & Hayman, The War Office

The Second World War 1939-1945: Army: Fighting Support and Transport Vehicles, and The War Office Organization for Their Provision: Part III - Armoured Vehicles, Green, Carver, Hayman, Duncan...

The snag is that the last one was not just not published, it wasn't even drafted (I assume writing Profiles was more lucrative):

 

NOT BOOKS: All tactical and technical advances including armour British/US and Axis forces

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Wartime publications.

 

With apologies if any of these have been mentioned already.

Tanks in Camera 1940 - 1943. David Fletcher. 9780750915687

British Tanks in N.A 1940 - 1942. Bryan Perrett. 9780850454215

British & American tanks of WWII. Chamberlain & Ellis. 9781845090098

British Armoured Fighting vehicle plans. George Bradford. 9780811734530

Focus on Armour, camouflage & markings; the British in North Africa. Kenneth M Jones. ISBN 0855232809.

Desert Tracks. William E Platz.

British Military Markings (WWII) Peter Hodges. ISBN 085524296


I have all of the above, and more. I will review upon request.

Now a question. Can anyone recommend a definative book on Commonwealth (or Allied) Armoured Cars of WWII?

I don't know of one. Suprisingly whilst the Chamberlain & Ellis volume on the Germans includes armoured cars, the sister edition on the British does not.

 

There was an encyclopedia due out, they promoted it on Amazon a couple of years ago, it looked really good, but something must have gone awry, because the listing was withdrawn, and as far as I know, the book was never published.

 

ive got that "british and American tanks of wwII by chamberlain and ellis, (second printing,1969) the shots are all black and white.its still pretty good.

 

WW2 Allied Vehicles Military Portfolio 1939-1945 compiled by R M Clarke, Brooklands Books. This one is a compilation of articles from contemporary (1939-46) motoring magazines.

More titles here.

 

The prequel:

Discovering Horse Drawn Transport of the British Army. D J Smith, Shire Books. ISBN 085263403X

 

British Military Markings (WWII) Peter Hodges. ISBN 085524296

Then there's the revised and expanded edition:

British Military Markings 1939-1945 by Peter Hodges and Michael D Taylor, Cannon Publications, 1994, ISBN 1899695001

And, in support:

World War 2 Military Vehicle Markings by Terence Wise, Patrick Stephens Ltd, 1981, ISBN 0850594391

That's just prompted me to get Warpaint 4 and suggests that Dick Taylor's other offering might answer the call for a new techy book:

Into the Vally: The Valentine Tank and Derivatives 1938-1960 by Dick Taylor, Mushroom Model Publications, 2011, ISBN 836142136X

 

Two new Tankograd titles:

TANKOGRAD Publishing - Verlag Jochen Vollert - Militärfahrzeug: British Military Trucks of World War 2

and

TANKOGRAD Publishing - Verlag Jochen Vollert - Militärfahrzeug: British Military Trucks in Wehrmacht Service

Both look great.

 

That's just prompted me to get Warpaint 4
What's it like?
I have all four volumes earmarked for Christmas.

 

There was an encyclopedia due out, they promoted it on Amazon a couple of years ago, it looked really good, but something must have gone awry, because the listing was withdrawn, and as far as I know, the book was never published.


This is refering to Commonwealth & Allied armoured cars of WWII
can anyone remember the title?

 

I am a new member here but wish to start my first post with some crass commercial self-promotion.
Over the past 17 years I have published a large number of monographs on Canadian vehicles and artillery under the "Weapons of War' imprint. These are available on-line from Service Publications as well as through select retailers in Canada, the US and the UK (Bookworld Wholesale is my UK distributor).
To date I have published 37 separate titles in the series. Although blatantly Canadian many of these vehicles saw use in the UK or other commonwealth countries. The booklets run 24 pages each, most include a set of 1:35 scale drawings and all information is drawn from original sources at Canadian Archives or Dept of Nat'l Defence. Numbers 38 and 39 are at the printers now. These can all be seen at Service Publications - Weapons of War
In addition I wrote the book on motorcycles in the Canadian Army from 1914 to the present and am working on a three-volume set (200 pages each) on the venerable CMP.
Cheers,
Clive

 

Into the Vally is a fantastic book which I highly recommend.

Speaking of out of print and the like, Orwell1984 pointed out to me that "Model Centrum Progres" seems to have gone out of business. Recently they published a couple of beautiful collections of British cruiser tank photos by Peter Brown with short histories attached. Note, these won't give you a lot of technical details, but they will give you a lot of great photos.




Prices for the A13 book are already horrible on Amazon, but they do still show a couple of copies of the A9 and A10 book.