Book Review: Tank battles in Miniature 2: a wargamer's guide to
the Russian Campaign, 1941-1945 by Bruce Quarrie

Following the highly successful format of Donald Featherstone's
book,"Tank Battles in Miniature: A wargamers' guide to the Western
Desert Campaign 1940--1942",  this volume is a detailed study of the
armies, weapons and tactics prevailing on the Eastern Front during the
Second World War.

The book begins with a description of how the campaign can best be
adapted for war gaming, using tiny 1:300 scale model tanks. This is
followed by a vividly graphic description of what it was really like to
fight in a tank under Russian Front conditions, a concise account of the
actual course of the campaign from Operation Barbarossa to the fall of
Berlin, and chapters on German and Russian armoured development,
organisation and tactics.

For many readers the most useful section will be that in which
practically every tank and vehicle of significance on both sides is
described, with performance tables.

The author then goes on to discuss firing tank and anti-tank guns in
real life and in miniature, infantry movement and firepower infantry
support weapons, the aircraft used by both sides and how to recreate
aerial combat over the wargames table. Separate chapters cover lines of
communication and supply, minefields and 'dragons teeth', partisans,
armoured trains, tank recovery and maintenance, board wargames and the
availability of model vehicles for wargaming.

Specification: 200 pages, 8l/2'' x 51/2" (216mm x 138mm), 25 photographs
and 37 maps and diagrams. Case bound with colour laminated jacket.