The popularity of the video game "World of Tanks" has led to the welcome release of books on Soviet AFV's based on Russian archival material. Sadly, unless one reads Russian these books simply provide lots of pretty pictures and detailed drawings. Now, we are getting two of the titles translated into English!

The T-34 Goes to War
A. Ulanov, D. Shein
For the first time, translated Soviet archival documents, including more than 100 photos and illustrations, are used to present "the Russian view" of the legendary T-34 tank.
• 10 color plates highlight more than 100 never-before-seen archival photographs, illustrations, tables, and diagrams about the development and employment of the legendary T-34 tank.
• BONUS: Every T-34 book contains a unique code that provides 7 days of Premium, 1000 Gold, 100,000 credits, and a T-34-85M (Soviet medium tank worth about $15 in World of Tanks).

In 2012, the company that created World of Tanks, the phenominal world-wide massive, multi-player online game, started publishing a series of books in Russian that utilized Soviet documents and archival materials that had never before been seen by outsiders or published in any language about the design, procurement, development, manufacturing, and combat employment of Soviet armored fighting vehicles (AFVs) during World War Two (the Great Patriotic War to Russians). Now these remarkable books are being published in English with the obvious aphorism The Russian View. More than 100 photos, illustrations, tables, and diagrams tell the story about the development and operational deployment of the legendary T-34 tank.


SU-152
And Related Vehicles
Yuri Igorevich Pasholok
For the first time, translated Soviet archival documents, including nearly 200 photos and illustrations, are used to present "the Russian view" on the powerful SU-152 self-propelled gun and tank killer.
• 10 color plates highlight more than 200 never-before-seen archival photographs, illustrations, tables, and diagrams about the development of the Soviet SU-152 tank-killer. BONUS: Every SU-152 book contains a unique code that provides 7 days of Premium, 1000 Gold, 100,000 credits, and a SU-85i (Soviet tank destroyer) worth about $15 in World of Tanks.