The origins of armour, D.J.Fletcher; British armour 1918-40 - doctrine and development, J.P.Harris; the development of German armoured forces 1918-40, W.Heinemann; British armoured warfare in the western desert 1940-43, P.G.Griffith; the operational employment of Soviet armour in the Great Patriotic War, C.J.Dick; the American experience of armour 1919-53, S.D.Badsey; armour in Vietnam, J.L.Pimlott; the Israeli experience, F.H.Toase; the contemporary Soviet view, T.R.W.Waters; Nato's central front, M.Nicklaus-Carter; conclusion - arms past and present, J.P.Harris and F.H.Toase.