Armoured Fighting Vehicles in Profile (AFVs of the World Series); Volume 4: American AFVs of World War II
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Presumed First Doubleday & Company Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 26 cm. viii, 240, 63, [1] pages. Illustrations (some color). Index. Bookplate. Review slip laid in. Wrinkling to top edge of a few pages. DJ soiled and edges worn with a scratch at rear. Errata on page iv. A not on the American Designation System on page iv. Part I includes Eighty-eight Thousand to Come, Light Tanks M1-M5, T3 Christie, M3 Medium (Lee/Grant), M4 Medium (Sherman), The M6 Heavy and M26 Pershing, M22 Locust Light Tank, M24 Chaffee Light Tank, Hellcat, Long Tom and Pries, Complete Checklist of All U.S. World War II Self-Propelled Weapons, M3 Hack-Track APC, Landing Vehicles Tracked, U.S. Armored Cars, M103 Heavy Tank, M41 Light Tank (Walker Bulldog), M47 Patton, Index. Part 2 (separately paginated) United States Armored Organization (1917-1967). Index. Among the authors, in addition to the Editor, were Chris Ellis, Peter Chamberlain, Stevenson Pugh, Robert J. Icks, and B. H. Vanderveen. Colonel Robert J. Icks, USAR-Retired was a student of and writer on armor. He authored five books and numerous articles for professional journals. Having an enlisted man in World War I, he was commissioned in the Infantry Reserve upon graduating from Ripon College in 1927. During World War II. he served as a colonel with the Ordnance Department. Chris Ellis has been a technology enthusiast since his school days. He has nearly fifty years of experience as a writer and editor, having started out in the early 1960s as editor of Airfix Magazine. He has also written numerous books along with articles on military, aviation and transport subjects. More