These legendary tanks have been in combat service for 70 years. These formidable, ultra-reliable, inexpensive to manufacture and easy to operate vehicles have become the standard of world tank building - even NATO strategists calculated the power of their tank forces in the “fifty-fives”, which were the first in the world to be equipped anti-nuclear defense system and capable of conducting combat operations in a nuclear war. In addition to the Soviet Army, the T-54 and its “most advanced modification” T-55 were in service in 67 countries and fought on all continents - from the suppression of the Hungarian uprising of 1956 to the defeat Georgia in 2008, from Vietnam and Afghanistan to Yugoslavia and Desert Storm, from the Arab-Israeli, Indo-Pakistani, Cambodian, Vietnamese-Chinese, Iran-Iraq and Lebanese wars to Angola, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Chad , from Transnistria, Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia to Libya and Syria. In the new book by a leading armor historian you will find comprehensive information about the famous T-54/55, which earned the title “TANK SOLDIER”. COLOR collector’s edition is illustrated with hundreds of exclusive drawings, “ side panels" and photographs.