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This book is a good review of the Centurion Tank & its history & build.
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A Very good book! Very informative! Love it 😊
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Another in the Images of War series, the Centurion Tank was one of the most powerful and successful tanks of the post war period. This book covers the development and basic history of the tank, a lot which has been covered before, as well as some previously popular lines drawings on details of the Cent. Unlike some of the other Images series books, this one features some nice colour profiles, which would be nice to see in all the series books. This book however covers more the development and basic history of the tank and its variants, and not so much its operational history. This would have been nice, especially as the Centurion had the most battle honours of any western post war tank ever. Centurions spanned from the in field testing and policing in Germany at the end of WW2 (Operation Sentry), through to Korea, the Suez Crisis, Oman and Kuwait, Vietnam, the Arab-Israeli conflicts from 1965 til current, Northern Ireland, South Africa, the Gulf War and remain in service with at least 6 countries still. They have been developed into state of the art tanks as well as specialized variants including APCs, engineer tanks, etc, but a lot of the foreign service and operational histories are only briefly covered, and with only limited pictures reference them. It is possible that the operational and foreign history of the Centurion would be too much to fit in this book, so maybe its been left out for logistic purposes. In saying that, this book still has a lot of nice pictures of the British Centurion and variants. Overall, this is a good book of an awesome tank, and given its cheap price I do recommend it for the pictures, lines drawings and colour profiles.Read full review
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