German Tanks of World War Two

London, England: Arms and Armour, 1999. Reprint Edition, First Printing Thus. Trade paperback. Very good. 160 pages. Oversized book, measuring 10-3/4 inches by 8-1/2 inches. Ink name of previous owner written in ink inside front cover; raised stamp of that owner on bottom corner of half-title page. Includes Illustrations, Introduction, Tank designations, and Acknowledgments. Also includes information on building the Panzers, Panzer organizations and training, Pz Kpfw I and variants, Pz Kpfw II and variants, Pz Kpfw 35(t) and 38(t) and variants, Pz Kpfw III and variants, Pz Kpfw IV and variants, Pz Kpfw V and variants, and Pz Kpfw VI and variants. Also includes information on Superheavies, specialized vehicles, and captured tanks, as well as an Annex, Endnotes, Select Bibliography, and Index. This book traces Germany's evolution and deployment of the tank from the pre-war days of secrecy, through to the formidable Panthers and Tigers, concluding with the superheavies under development in 1945. Extensively illustrated from German, British, and American sources. George Forty OBE (10 September 1927 - 19 May 2016) was a British Army officer who was chief of staff of the Royal Armoured Corps gunnery school and later director of the Tank Museum, and also author of many books on warfare. He joined the British Army in 1945, and was part of the first post-war class commissioned from Sandhurst in 1948. He served in the British Army of the Rhine in the 1st Royal Tank Regiment, in Korea, where he was wounded in the Third Battle of the Hook in May 1953, and in Aden, the Persian Gulf and Borneo in command of an armoured reconnaissance squadron. After attending the Staff College in 1959, he held appointments at the Army Air Corps Centre and the Royal Armoured Corps Tactical, Signals and Gunnery Schools before retiring in 1971. Forty published more than 70 books with a focus on armoured warfare and also on wartime in Dorset. From 1981 until his retirement in 1993 he served as the curator (director) of the Tank Museum. He modernized and greatly expanded it, becoming known as the "father of the Tank Museum". Forty's wife, Anne, worked with him at the Tank Museum. They had four sons, one of whom works at the Royal Signals Museum.