Heavy Wrecker
A Visual History of the U.S. Army’s Wheeled and Tracked Wreckers 1940-1945
Ampersand Publishing USA
By David Doyle
Reviewed by Mark Aldrich, IPMS #39295
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ISBN: 9780977378159
MSRP: $19.95
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Ampersand Publishing.
235 N.E.6th Avenue
Delray Beach, Florida 33483
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Along with picking the Middle East Wars as my model building, I have ALWAYS been fascinated with recovery vehicles. Sometimes those two loves can work together, like the VT-34, M31 and M32, and the M88. When I first saw this book I told my wife that would be a neat Christmas gift. Lo and behold, Santa got it for me as a Christmas gift. Tells me I must have been a good boy this year.
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This 120 page soft cover tome is just what it advertises. A VISUAL history! This is not a read book but a look book. All the photographs are black and white and there are over 170 of them. It contains two brief pages of the history of American recovery vehicles and jumps right into the meat of this book. It starts with the M31 and moves into the M32. These sections are full of full size "in action" photographs. The last five pages contain interior shot of a M32.
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The book then moves onto the three wheeled vehicle wreckers. The T1, C2, and Diamond T series of wreckers are covered in the remaining 61 pages of the book. All of these photographs are in action as well and some of them are definitely unique. The last eleven pages are dedicated to close up photographs of a collector’s restored wrecker at a meeting on England.
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This is a MUST HAVE book to anyone interested in recovery vehicles. This book can be picked up from Greatmodels and Squadron websites. Thanks to Santa (my wonderful wife Jerry) for getting this for me and IPMSUSA for providing the space for others to read the review.