This unique illustrated encyclopedia contains extensive material: - tactical and technical characteristics, design features and combat use of the main serial tanks; - the history of the creation and development of armored vehicles in the period from 1915 to the present day; - photographs of the most famous tanks: American Sherman M4 and Patton M48, German Panther and Tiger E, Soviet T-34, T-55, T-72, British Centurion, French AMKh-13, Israeli Merkava.