With 48 pages of black and white photomontage, the book has over 122 high quality photographs usually two or three to a page. The inside covers have colour illustrations of examples taken from the book. The main text is in Russian with the comments alongside the photographs are bilingual. See comment at end on this review.

This book contains a wealth of new information about the German practices of camouflaging tanks and B vehicles. As more and more information from this publisher becomes available, the rules of standardisation seem to be largely ignored. Photographic evidence shows that it was mainly down to the whim or abilities of the painter as to how he interpreted the way it should or should not be painted. Picaso would have been proud of some of the results.

To pick out one photograph to illustrate this the markings on a Panther G do not follow the usual rules of three numbers but has AJ9 in what looks like red outlined in white, page 38, photo 106.

The vast majority of the photographs have never been published before and those that have, usually in the past have been poorly printed or misidentified. It contains a great many surprises and the German experts are going to be surprised yet again.

Once more the authors and publishers are to be congratulated on bringing us loads of new and interesting reference material.