Landships II

The Czar's British Squadron by Bryan Perrett

Fights and Flights by C R Samson

Rolls Royce And The Great Victory by Rolls Royce (1 section concerns armoured cars)

Those are 3 I can think of off the top of my head. And try abebooks to get them; much cheaper than Amazon or ebay.

Hi Rob,

still available I hope, or may be second hand:
Profile, Vol.One AFVs of World War One ( starts with cars).
Deutsche Radpanzer im I.Weltkrieg, heard something that it is available again (nice documentated, in German). Google that title and you will find, mine is in my workshop and I am at home now, sorry can't give you the publisher's name

Kieffer

Kieffer has reminded me of E. Bartholomew's book, Early Armoured Cars, printed by Shire (now part of Osprey).

Also, the complete volume 1 of the Profile AFV series can be quite expensive. But you can buy the separate parts. The armoured cars are in Part 9, also titled Early Armoured Cars, but this is from Major General N W Duncan (I believe he was a very modern Major General, with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse). And he wrote another book called, German Armoured Cars, about which I have no clue but as they had only 3, it is probably about WW2 stuff.

Part 40 of the Profile AFV series is about American armoured cars, titled 'US Armored Cars'. It is by Icks and is rather disappointing as it doesn't cover the early cars in much depth at all. And as you have Crismon's Wheeled Military Vehicles this booklet would not add to your knowledge.

There is a book on Russian armored vehicles 1906 to 1917, and one specifically on the Austin. Both are by Baryatinsky and Kolomiyets, or Mikhail Baryatinskiy and Maxim Kolomiets (various spellings, I guess it doesn't translate).

@kapitan. The Profile AFV series are not very good for colour profiles. For example they show Tank Mark IV Hilda in green. For the German armoured cars look in German Tanks and Armoured Vehicles by B T White, published by Ian Allan.

 

Hi Philtydirtyanimal (quite a finger breaking 'nom de plume' you have..),

you'r right: there are some contradictions in the Profile volume. The sponson of the Mk I, in the artwork..compared with photo's of the original (the Clan Leslie)? But may be I am missing something there.
Makes one wonder if the text is accurate, which is hard to imagine though.

Kieffer

I don't know what Samson's book is like, as I don't have it, but I am hoping it is something like Mitchell's 'Tank Warfare'.

Dunsterville (another modern Major General) also wrote a book or two; 'The Adventures of Dunsterforce' and 'Stalky's Reminiscences'.

Not sure if Locker-Lampson (Oliver) wrote any about his adventures.

Incidentally, some interesting books can be found online in their entirety at either Project Gutenberg or Internetarchive. (None of the books mentioned here, but 'Adventures Of A Despatch Rider', for example, can be found.)

@Keiffer. I did wonder about the text in the Profile AFV books. It matches (more or less) what Fletcher writes in his later books, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is good and accurate. I get the feeling that the text is good, the photos are good, and the colour illustrations are a fairy tale. But its just a feeling.

PDA