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Title: Clash of Chariots: The Great Tank Battles: An Army Times Book by Thomas Donnelly, Sean Naylor, Walter J. Boyne, Tom Donnelly ISBN: 0-425-16871-9 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Development Story is Accurate but Tactical Analysis is WeaK
Comment: This book presents a decent historical development of tank warfare and identifies most of the major landmarks and turning points. The book, however, does not provide many detailed acounts of armored actions and sometimes the enagements are difficult to follow. In particular, the book is lacking enough battle maps to properly illustrate actions and the terrain they occurred in. I was also dissapointed by the book's poor editing; it was clearly evident that the editor merely ran his spell checker over the document and called it complete. There are numerous incorrect words throughout the entire text; they are properly spelled, however. People who want a shallow history of tank warfare may want to read this book and will find it entertaining. For a better book on actual tank battles I would recommend reading Panzer Battles by F.W. von Mellenthin.

Rating: 2
Summary: i don't like it very much
Comment: I'm only half way through the book, but i agree with some of the comments of previous reviewers. For me, the book gets too bogged down in the minutae of some of the battles and doesn't put the military strategy in overall perspective. It also hasn't clearly shown the evolution of tank tactics resulting from the lessons learned from those battles, but merely describes key battles in chronological order and lets the reader draw their own inferences, rightly or wrongly. I really think the biggest flaw of the book is the lack of an overarching tactical focus/framework that helps integrate the battle descriptions and links the evolution of armored warfare. Also, although the book includes some maps, there aren't enough.

Rating: 5
Summary: review of a reviewer
Comment: The review by [email protected] is not to be taken seriously. Such a short criticism of scholarship which itself contains typos and uses "antidotal" instead of "anecdotal" is ironic indeed. The reviewer has the gall to complain of the book's typos