Explores the history of tanks and profiles several well-known tanks in history, highlighting their functions and characteristics. Includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.

Traces the history and development of tanks, describing the origins, inventors, specifications, and parts of several different types of armored vehicles. Includes fact boxes, sidebars, color illustrations, a glossary, further resources, and a timeline of key advances in the field.

Simple text and color photos describe a tank, explaining what each of its parts are and showing them up close. The huge wheels, powerful engines, and loud noises of working machines seem to entrance children for hours. Now young students can pore over color photos as they learn about their favorite machines--inside and out. Each book builds vocabulary as it describes in simple language the basics of a machine: what it looks like, what it's used for,...

Mighty Tanks introduces readers to the different parts that make up a tank and explains how these mighty armored vehicles move over rough terrain.

Presents infomation on tanks, including the history of their development, what a tank crew does, and what tanks of the future may look like.

"Tanks: 100 Years of Evolution presents a comprehensive account of the worldwide development of tanks from their inception on the battlefields of the First World War to the present day. Starting with a reappraisal of the advancement of tanks and how they evolved during the First World War, acclaimed armour expert Professor Ogorkiewicz provides an insight into how, at the end of that conflict, tanks had gained considerable military importance. ......

"This search-and-find book invites early readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about tanks and how they keep soldiers safe in battle"--Provided by publisher.

Briefly outlines the development of the tank, an armored vehicle with caterpillar tracks which enables it to cross rough terrain.