Series:	Armor at War Series
Title:	Panzers in North Africa (7043)
Author:	John Healey
Publisher:	Concord Publications Company
ISBN:	962-361-685-6
Page Count:	72 pages - 179 black and white photographs, 16 color drawing plates

This new book from Concord Publications is a companion title to Concord 7021 Armor of the Deutsches Afrikakorps. The new book contains 179 black and white photographs of Axis and Allied armor during the North African campaign. Many of these pictures I haven’t ever seen before and I am an avid North African campaign researcher. As with most other Armor at War Series books the new book starts out with an Introduction text section. However, this introduction text section is limited to 11 paragraphs that fit on one page. More information should have been provided by the author.

The photographs start with the arrival of the Afrikakorps at Tripoli, Libya and continue through the debacle in Tunis, Tunisia. Many of the photographs are of captured American or British equipment used by the Germans or Italians. There are also many photographs of destroyed or knocked out German and Italian equipment. Also, there are a few shots of destroyed Allied tanks and equipment.

There are a couple of photographs that shouldn’t be in the book. It looks like they are of equipment on the Russian Steppe and not in the North African desert. Also, a few of the photographs have incorrect captions. Another question I have about the captions is that the author can determine the color of a vehicle from a black and white photograph. I wish I could determine the exact color of a black and white photograph by just looking at it.

The book also contains 16 color drawing plates. The color plates consists of: