The Battle of El Alamein book is recommended for its photographs, maps, vehicle details, and modelling guidance as well as its historical text. One image shows a Crusader tank disguised to resemble a lorry, illustrating the material side of battlefield deception. Another shows a tank loaded onto a transporter rather than driving a long distance on its own tracks. Transporters preserve track and engine life, move armour faster on roads, and reduce damage to the road surface. The photographs reinforce the logistics lesson developed elsewhere in the stream: combat vehicles require a transport system if they are to arrive ready to fight.
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El Alamein, tank transporters, and track life
A book discussion uses North African photographs to show why tanks travel on transporters and how deception could disguise an armoured vehicle as a lorry.