The World's Great Tanks

Why was the German Tiger tank of World War II able to knock out every Allied tank then in service, what mix of rounds can the modern French Leclerc tank fire, and why is the state-of-the-art American Abrams such a potent fighting machine? The World’s Great Tanks answers all these questions and examines all the other exceptional and innovative tracked armoured vehicles that have graced the battlefield in the twentieth century, from the early designs on the Western Front in World War I to the batt