Book Review Tank Wrecks of the Western Front 1940-45. Anthony Tucker-Jones.

Tank Wrecks of the Western Front, 1940–1945

By Anthony Tucker-Jones
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
Series: Images of War
Pages: 130
Illustrations: 160
ISBN: 9781526741547
Published: 23rd October 2019


I do not understand the point of this book.
The remarkable work in Panzerwrecks & After The Battle books is already a thing.
Those titles (Panzerwrecks in particular, obviously) both provide series of connected images of abandoned/wrecked vehicles, giving them context and detail, getting into the depth of who operated them, how they were lost, etc. etc., to the nth degree.

This is just a random slew of pictures with a very light single paragraph summary of each vehicle model at the start of each chapter. Zero context to the images other than some pretty naff/limited captions.
Decent-enough pictures (I like tanks), but I suspect mostly of limited quality in the original as P&S are good at image reproduction these days & a few shots are quite sharp. Largely though; grainy low-quality photography. Sort of thing you used to be able to buy quite cheaply at fairs.

Don't bother.
Just filler in the mass of tank books really.
Meh.

~A


Cheers to P&S for the review copy.