The book under review is the new Title from Front Line Illustration Kharkov 1942.

I can give no detail of contact address or ISBN as it is all in Russian. The text to the photographs is bilingual in English and Russian.

Printed on good quality A4 paper and it has in it's 80 pages the following, black and white photographs 104 and 11 black and white tactical maps of the battle as it unfolded. The centre 4 pages are given over to colour illustrations of the tanks, which took part in the battle.

As with all these books coming out of Russian in recent years it is the wealth of information that the photographs contain. It never ceases to amaze me just how much information we have been denied in the past. Each new book offers new research projects and in many cases closes the door on other research that has waited in many cases years for the final section to come to light.

To illustrate the new research that this book opens up, the BT-2, BT -5 tanks some still in service May 1942. A new form of un-ditching beam fitted to the front fenders of a BT- 5.

Of the German tank photographs a truly wonderful shot of the Radio mast fully erected on a command tank Pz III E.

Page 65 for all those diorama builders it is a gem, a VW Kfz 82 with its front wheel and suspension collapsed and being levered up for repair.

I could go on picking out items, but it is up to you to buy the book and enjoy it and gain the wealth of information the photographs contain. To help you build those master pieces in model form.

I recommend it very highly.

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