Review by Terry Ashley

Text is in Polish and English with a brief historical introduction and technical description followed by 10 pages of period photos mostly of training with the Polish army during the 1920s and gives a good overall impression of the gun as well as the uniforms of the time.

The remainder of the book has detailed close-up images of a preserved gun with colour photos as well as illustrations from the field manual to add clarity to the walk-around photos.

The initial overall walk around of the whole gun is followed by the extreme close-up images covering every aspect of the gun with detailed shots of the breech block, gun laying hand wheels, lower cradle and mountings and the rear trail with tow hitch as well as the carriage wheels and small gun shield.

As mentioned there are numerous illustrations from the field manual detailing sections such as the breech, gun sight, hand wheels, gun cradle and wheel mountings and help to give good perspective to the close-up images.

The towed ammunition limber is covered in the final four pages with photos of the actual limber and illustrations from the tech. manual.

As a bonus is a CD included with the field maintenance manual in .pdf format and all you need to view this is to have Adobe Acrobat installed on the computer, either PC or MAC.

The manual is from the Polish Army and therefore has only Polish text but the many illustrations of the working parts of the gun with numerous sectional drawings will appeal to the more technically minded as well as the modeller.

Bonus CD

Sample pages

Conclusion:
Again the book may be small in size but is packed with excellent close-up detail shots of the 37mm anti-tank cannon WZ.36 and the enclosed CD is a real bonus with the overall coverage of the gun providing just about every detail you would ever want.

Highly recommended.

Model Detail Photo Monographs are distributed by AirConnection Canada.
Thanks to ROSSAgraph for the review book.

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