New book has arrived

  Walter.J.Spielberger's Panzer IV and its Variants has just arrived! Though I've already have this in PDF but it's always better to have the real BOOK.

This book was found on Taobao, a site similar to Amazon.
It's almost brand new and only cost me 75RMB (10 dollars).
What a bargain!

  Chinese tank books, well, are all rubbish. They're all written by amateur tank historians and full of crap and nonsense. At present the main author of tank books in China is a man named Deng Tao 邓涛, whose penname is Zi Chi子迟. Almost all the fake information about tanks came from his book, like the invincible German E series(This theory is very popular among Chinese tank fans, especially after World of Tank came out.) and the ridiculous article of "The 120mm tank gun Challenger MBT used was a bored-out version of the French 105mm tank gun, and the latter was a bored-out version of the American 90mm M3", he even wrote a book about that. So, if you truly wish to understand the real tank developing history in China you have to purchase books written by foreigners from all sorts of methods. I'm building up my collection since I entered the university and that's all I got now:

  From left to right are:Chars de France, Panzer tracts 5-2, J-Tank issue 22, Japanese tank, Tank and Tank Battles, Sapper Introduction. Inside the box are Japanese Anti-aircraft guns, Japanese mortar and rocket launchers, Artillery Introduction and Japanese Pistols and MGs. I learnt a little French from my father(He majored in French when he was in college) and during the high school I taught myself Japanese so it's a little bit convenient for me to read in these two foreign languages.

  It's really expensive to buy books from abroad because of the freight. I keep the balance by providing tank articles for the Chinese tank magazines. The royalties are not much, but enough for me to buy most of the book I want. I still depend on PDFs for the most of the time.