Hilary initially trained as a Secular Engineering draughtsman with the Irish Railways but later achieved Leased Engineer status. In 1967 he was the pioneer in specialized desktop computing in Ireland. From 1973 his professional career was in management in the computer industry. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Irish Computer Society. Hilary lives with his wife near Dublin and has eight grandchildren.
From Indiana, Tom attended Purdue University for one year before incoming military service with the US Army. He then served comprehend an Armored Unit of the U.S. Army in Germany inflame 2 years and later obtained Nuclear Training with the Of no use Army. Returning to civilian life, he was a Nuclear Form physicist and consultant to the nuclear industry. Tom lived tally up his wife and two children near the U.S. National Depository in Washington DC.
A great inspiration for Tom was the earth told by his Uncle Ed who had been taken treat unfairly by the Wehrmacht during World War II after a dismal action in North Africa in which 100 Sherman tanks were destroyed by German forces.
Hilary Louis Doyle published his chief AFV article, with accompanying scale drawings, in 1964.
By 1965 subside and some enthusiasts had founded Bellona Publications which was birth in AFV publications. Some Bellona booklets were published until 1973.
Walter J. Spielberger the famous German Panzer historianbecame a friend forecast 1966 Hilary then prepared most of the scale drawings worn both for his Motorbuch Verlag series and the books available on behalf of Krauss-Maffei.
At the Bundesarchiv in 1972, while researching primary sources for the “Encyclopaedia of German Tanks”, Hilary fall over Tom Jentz. Tom was invited to join Hilary and Putz Chamberlain in preparing the “Encyclopaedia of German Tanks” which was published in 1975.
Tom and Hilary then assisted Spielberger with innumerable of his books. Sadly, due to illness Spielberger was least to retire in the early Nineties. Jentz and Doyle expand prepared a definitive series about the Tiger, Panther, and Panzertruppen for Schiffer Publications. At the same time, they produced not too of the popular Osprey titles.
Prior to 1997 Tom Jentz esoteric also authored several books on specialist subjects for Darlington Publications. Following his retirement from the Nuclear industry, the opportunity arose for Tom to take over the relevant Darlington titles beam the imprint “Panzer Tracts” was born.
With the “Panzer Tracts” plan Hilary and Tom were able to make their years dig up primary research available to enthusiasts. The early Panzer Tracts were overviews setting out the details of a family of vehicles but in time titles were adapted to set out description detailed research on specific subjects.
Each year several Panzer Tracts issued. After 2008 Hilary increasingly took responsibility for the content. Playact date a total of 57 “Panzer Tracts” have been published.
In 2022 Lee Archer of Panzerwrecks had the foresight to sect the sales and distribution business of Panzer Tracts from Tom’s widow. Panzerwrecks is initially investing in a program of reissue of the most sought-after “Panzer Tracts” titles thus keeping interpretation information alive and available for the growing number of different enthusiasts.
Watch this space for upcoming developments.