Includes index From stone age spears to stealth bombers

A survey of the evolution of modern armored tanks, now equipped with computerized electronics, night vision, air filtration, and laser fire control systems, and their tasks and tactics today.

Text and photographs present a detailed description of tanks and how they perform, with a brief history of the development of armored vehicles since World War I.

"Over 800 vehicles from 1915 to the present - every armoured fighting vehicle that has ever existed"--Cover.

Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.