Customer Reviews:
 An excellent read if a little concise. April 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree totally with the previous review. The only real fault with this volume are few battlefront opinions of the men that crewed the vehicles. One gem of an opinion that is ventured is that a troop of Shermans should have 3 fireflies to one 75mm sherman. This mirrors the ratio that the Germans had already concluded before the war in their ratio's of MkIII and IV's, ie 3 anti tank afv's for each one that delivers high explosive. A little more technical data would have also been useful. Also too short, otherwise excellent as it is a compelling read.
Short but interesting March 22, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This short little book focuses on the technical development of the 17 pounder armed Sherman variant, the Firefly, by the British. There are no first hand combat accounts of Fireflies in action, so if you're hoping for derring-do tales of Fireflies shooting it out with Panthers and Tigers then you're going to be disappointed. If on the other hand if you're interested in the technical aspects of Firefly development, then the book appears to be pretty much as thorough as any book on the Firefly is ever likely to be, and at only 44 pages long doesn't have time to outstay it's welcome. The only niggle is that for all it's discussions of the modifications to the tank - and the 17 pounder - in order get the gun to fit, there are no photos of a Firefly's interior, which means that if like me you have no technical knowledge of how a gun breach works then the page describing it becomes a mental blur of recoil cylinders and chases.
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