Praise for previous edition:

With this concise new study of armored warfare, historian Alaric Searle (Univ. of Salford) has made a timely and important contribution to the cyclical debate about the nature, evolution, and ongoing utility of armored fighting vehicles … Armoured Warfare is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the evolution of military technology in modern warfare.

Michigan War Studies Review

[Great] value to the novice and expert alike … [Would] be ideal as a text for any course relating to the history of innovation or modern combat. It is a solid foundational text on an expansive and complicated topic.

The Journal of Military History

[An] excellent international history of armored warfare, utilizing both secondary and primary source material … Searle provides a comprehensive introduction to the use of the tank in modern war and how its application has evolved over time. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General collections; upper-division undergraduates and above.

CHOICE

Armoured Warfare is a smashing success … Even beyond its utility as a classroom text, [it] has much to offer the scholar or the specialist … A book like Armoured Warfare can serve as an indispensable reintroduction to the subject

Robert Citino, History: Reviews of New Books

Armoured Warfare is a worthwhile addition to any military library... It has a global perspective and provides a history of the tank, and it is an ideal companion for those studying armored warfare, modern military history, and war studies.

Military Review

Alaric Searle has rendered a great service to the study of modern military history by producing the first comprehensive academic study of armoured warfare from its origins in the First World War to the present day. This book should be regarded as essential reading, not just for those with an interest in tanks, but for those who want to fully understand the evolution of warfare throughout the Twentieth Century.

Timothy Bowman, Senior Lecturer in Modern British Military History, University of Kent, UK