As with any book, the author has many people to acknowledge and thank for their time, expertise, permissions, photographs and kindness that they made available for use in this work. These are not in any particular order.
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In the first instance, to my good friend, Thomas Anderson, for the provision of the German images from his own collection. I also wish to thank Nik Cornish at Stavka.org.uk for the supply of images from his own collection and also the provision of those from the Central Museum of the Armed Forces, Moscow, and the fonds of the RGAKFD in Krasnogorsk. I also wish to express my appreciation to Gennady Sloutski and Gennady Petrov for other images from Russian sources. Thanks are also due to the Archives Department of the Tank Museum, Bovington, and also to the museum’s photographer, Matt Sampson, for the pictures he took for the walk-around section of the book. My appreciation is also extended to Dick Taylor for the pictures of the Shrivenham T-34/85. For the image of the T-34/76 in the Finnish Military Museum I wish to thank Mr Jari Mäkiaho. I am grateful for permission from Schiffer Publications to use parts of a table in T. Jentz’s Vol. 1 of PanzerTruppen, and Pen and Sword Publishing for the use of a number of graphic images from M. Baryatinsky’s book on the T-34/76 as well as a number of quotations from their publication T-34 in Action. I wish to give my thanks, nonetheless, to Yevgeny Scharov for the picture of the T-34/85 and SU-100 in Yemen, even though I was unable to contact him prior to going to press. Thanks also go to J. Vollert for provision of a number of images used in the text. Last but not least, many thanks for the technical assistance from Michael Lane. Other images are from the author’s own collection.
