It saw widespread use during the Second World War in campaigns that included Poland, France, the Soviet Union, the Balkans, North Africa and Normandy. Dick is author of the Haynes Challenger 1 MBT Manual and the forthcoming Chieftain Tank Manual.
If you are, as I am, an unrepentant "tank-o-file" then this book will inform and entertain, and you can see the featured tank in action, so to speak, at the Tank Museum.