The guns: 1939-45 (Ballantine's illustrated history of World War II. Weapons book, no. 11)

I read this book, translated to the portuguese, when I was a child.I still have this book.I should tell you, that this book is concise, short and easy to read.Why I don't give 5 stars for it?Well, this book has basically nothing, about soviet artillery .I fact soviet artillery beteween 1941-1945 was the biggest in world history.I think that, when this book was writen in 1970's decade wasn't possible to have trustable information about soviet artillery in World War II.The japanese artillery also has very limited writen in this book. If you want to see the table of contents of this book, in English, I don't have it.I want to translate to English the brazilian table of contents, with some coments from myself: 1-The Thunder of war>Introduction writen by Barrie Pitt. <br />2-The begginings >The artillery in beggining of World War II. <br />3-Division's artillery > Equipments from England, USA,etc. <br />4-Anti-tank artillery > Guns and anmunitions anti-tanks. <br />5-Steel's roof >Anti-aircraft artillery in World War II. <br />6-Heavy weight guns > The great cannons,mortars and coastal defense. <br />7-The Newton's artillery > Guns without recoil. <br />8-Crude guns > Crude artillery produced.All with limited or no results at all. <br />9-Table of dates > Weights, sizes, range,etc. of artillery in World War II. <br />10-Bibliography > Books about this subject.

This is an excellent overview of artillery and anti-tank guns of the Axis and the Allies during World War II. The emphasis is on the technology and capabilities of the individual guns, which you'd think would render the prose rather tedious. But author Ian Hogg writes very well and keeps it interesting. The text is punctuated with numerous photographs and illustrations.