Tanks

by Geoff Cornish

Book Overview

Tanks are the most powerful vehicles on land.Armed with cannons, machine guns, and other weaponry, tanks can deliver overwhelming firepower where it is needed most.With thick armor designed to stop bombs and bullets, tanks can take punishment as well as dish it out.Discover more about tanks, from the first armored vehicles of World War I to the ultra high-tech machines of today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822547015
• ISBN13: 9780822547013
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.2" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5

Customer Reviews

A good introduction for children

This book is suitable for young children who may be interested in tanks as a result of having seen them in movies or the news, but who have no other knowledge of the subject. It provides a brief summary of the history of tanks, what makes them useful in military operations, and how they have been developed and used over the past century. The illustrations are quite good. The language is suitably simple for children, but avoids stooping to baby-talk. Terms a youngster would probably find unfamiliar are in bold type, with a definition at the bottom the page on which they first appear. As this is a child's introduction to tanks, there is virtually no military theory (think "The Golden Book of Tanks," as opposed to something by Rommel, Guderian, Liddell-Hart, or Fuller). A reasonably literate reader of 13 or older would probably be better off with a work on tanks written for adults, but I recommend this for younger children with an interest in the subject.