About the book: 1999 / Supplement to the magazine "MODEL CONSTRUCTION" Panzer IV is the only German tank that was in mass production throughout the Second World War and became the most mass tank of the Wehrmacht. Its popularity among German tankers was comparable to the popularity of the T-34 among ours and the Sherman among the Americans. Well-designed and extremely reliable in operation, this combat vehicle was, in the full sense of the word, the “workhorse” of the Panzerwaffe..