Using rare black and white wartime images along with colour pictures, this is a detailed and comprehensive body of work.

Classic Military Vehicle - Issue 244, September 2021

This is an excellent source of comprehensively captioned photographs of the M36 and M36B1. Military historians and anyone interested in US Army AFVs will find much to grab their attention here. Model makers will find this an indispensable reference due to the excellent close up photographs of every aspect of this AFV. Highly recommended!

Tom Cole, Miniature Armoured Fighting Vehicles Association, September 2020

Another informative ‘Images of War’ book full of close up images of a beautifully restored example and striking images from WWII. Many of the WWII images would make great reference for a diorama. Although the WWII images are in black and white the close-up images are in colour.

As with all the books in this series, it’s well written and produced. I can’t recommend this series enough.

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Vintage Airfix

This title is excellent and provides a good written history well supported by good photographs covering development, detailed walkarounds and in action examples during WW2. The photos are a good mix of in action, museum and restoration shots which will appeal to the modellers or vehicle collectors/enthusiasts.

March 2020, Model Military International

"In summary this is an excellent source of comprehensively captioned photographs of the M36 and M36B1."

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MAFVA

As usual, the books in this series present excellent photos (and here we also have many in color!) with very detailed captions that provide valuable information. This is another book by David Doyle that cannot be missed in the collection of armored vehicle enthusiasts.

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Old Barbed Wire Blog

Pure and hard documentation that will delight vehicle modelers at scale.

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Miniaturas JM

Books like this are a must for model makers and there is always the possibility you might be restoring the real thing and need a handy reference.

What I really like is the section on the M36B1, a model I previously knew nothing about.
There is stuff to learn here and the real bonus is that the book finishes with a package of colour shots showing a rare surviving example of the B1.

So, what we have is a solid look at the M36 family with Mr Doyle’s no-nonsense methodology. It makes for a straightforward recognition book of the old school that is well worth a look. There was a time when truncated versions of this sort of thing appeared in dedicated magazines, but for the sake of a few more quid we get a much more comprehensive product. I make that a win.

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War History Online, Mark Barnes

The latest in Pen and Sword's Images of War series takes an in-depth look at the M36 Tank Destroyer. Brilliant photos of this amazing specialised vehicle and its various wartime campaigns.

Books Monthly

As a replacement for the under gunned M10 "TD" the Americans developed the 90mm Gun Motor Carriage, M36, which first saw combat in the war in Europe in October 1944. In this latest release by Pen & Sword in their Military series, Images of War, David Doyle provides an introduction and a chapter each on the two basic variants, the M36, which either had a purpose built hull or a re-manufactured M10A1 hull, and the M36B1, based upon a Sherman tank hull. In his 121 pages there are 62 wartime black and white photos of the M36 and 6 of the -B1 variant. There are 84 colour detail photos of extant M36 machines with 21 colour photos of two preserved M36B1s. Mention is made of the -B2 diesel variant and the British modification, M10 SP Mark 1C (Achilles). This tank destroyer served in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Balkans and even encountered in the war in Iraq (ex-Iranian machines). It has served in many armies. It's an excellent reference with a wealth of well captioned detail photographs showing field modifications and many subtle differences.

Japanese Aviation Society

The author, an armour preservation specialist has delivered a beautifully researched and illustrated book, many illustrations being in full colour. – Very Highly Recommended

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Firetrench

The book is a selection of excellent photographs with accompanying text... Printing is to Pen & Sword’s usual high standard.

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Army Rumour Service (ARRSE)

Highly recommended... well written... inspirational for modellers.

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Scale Modelling Now

This is another fine addition to the Images of War series for Pen & Sword by author David Doyle. He takes on another WW2 era US AFV in the form of the M36/M36B1. This was a progression from the M10 tank destroyer, which saw it being fitted with the 90mm gun, to enable it to cope with the larger German AFVs of the later war period.

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Military Model Scene, Robin Buckland

The period black and white photographs are very well captioned and have been well chosen for the clarity of them. I feel these images will best serve the modeller who wishes to depict a specific vehicle at a specific time and place. Details such as marking can be picked out as can the collection of comforts that often get added. There are a series of photographs that show an M36 that rolled over while being towed and these will make excellent reference for those wishing to make a diorama of it rolled on its side or after it had been righted. There is also a very nice photograph showing the effect on winter white wash applications that could make for a visually stunning model.

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Armorama

Personally I love these books, and find them both very inspiring and very useful in relation to my modelmaking and wargaming hobbies. Definitely recommended.

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A Question Of Scale, Seb Palmer