As a subscriber of the quarterly Miltärfahrzeug from Tankograd, I have been informed about this book a few months back and immediately pre-ordered it.
I also have Neil Stoke’s book and so far it has been one of my absolute favorites on military vehicles. It cost me a fortune due to shipping from Canada to Germany + customs fees.
But as Tankograd has already stated, lots of new information has been discovered since its release. I agree Neil has added some of that to his 4BO site, but he somehow seems to have lost interest. Which is absolutely no criticism, just an observation.
So I look very much forward to this new book. I’ve read a sample chapter on the KV-2, and if the rest of the book is anything like that, I’d say it’s well worth the price.
That said, I hope more and better kits are released in the near future. Trumpeter’s kits 00356 to 00360 were very good and are now dirt cheap - and it’s fun kit-bashing them as Neil suggests - but later variants like the KV-1S and KV-85 are decidedly lesser efforts. I pin great hope on RFM.