There have been tons of books published about Germany and Japan in WWII. However, few have appeared about the third Axis country: Italy. Fewer yet have been done about Italy's armor. This new book by Squadron is very welcome then.

The format of the book is 8.5" x 11" in soft-cover and contains 64 pages, 140 black and white photos, seven color photos (most of these on the back cover), 22 color profiles (most of these as two-views). Also shown are Italian cap badge illustrations, a motor vehicle badge illustration, two line drawings and illustrations of license plates. Tank markings are shown in color too.

Vehicles, discussed and shown in the book are:

• L 3-35 tankettes (both regular and flame thrower versions)

• Fiat Ansaldo CV 33 tankettes (both regular, flame thrower and a bridge-layer version)

• L 3

• L 6-40 light tank (one picture of it shown with an engine heating trailer and one as a ammo carrier)

• M13-40 medium tank

• M11-39

• M14-41

• M15-42

• Samovente da 75/18

• The one-off Samovente da 47/32

• Samovente da 90/53

• Samovente da 105/25

• Samovente da 74/32 model 37

• Samovente da 75/34

• AB 40 armored car

• AB 41 armored car

• AB 43 armored car

• Lince armored car

• Fiat 611 6 x 4 armored car

• Ansaldo Lancia 1 ZM 4 x 2 armored car

• AS37 armored personel carrier

• Fiat 665NM shielded armored personel carrier

• The Camionetta 42 desert reconnaisance vehicle

• An armored train

• SPA TM 40 artillery tractor with trailer

• P40 heavy tank

Quite a bit of different Italian vehicles shown, for sure. I highly recommend this book to WWII armor modelers and also WWII historians.

Thanks to Squadron for the review sample