My Tank Is Fight!

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My Tank Is Fight!: Deranged Inventions of WWII
Author	Zack Parsons
Illustrator	Josh Hass & Mike Doscher
Language	English
Subject(s)	World War II
Genre(s)	Humour
Publisher	Kensington Books
Publication date	2006
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	225

My Tank Is Fight! is a 2006 book by author Zack Parsons, an editor for the website somethingawful.com. The title, according to the introduction, is "from a song by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets," specifically My Tank from the album The Great Old Ones. The book is subtitled Deranged Inventions of WWII, though the subtitle War is Hellarious was used prior to print.

The book, Parsons' first, is about some of the unusual and impractical military weapons of World War II from both the Allies and the Axis Powers. The bulk of the inventions are German, with one American invention and one British/American collaboration. Each article includes an isometric drawing of the weapon and the center of the book contains full-color illustrations of most of the weapons discussed in the book.

The book is comprised of three parts - land, air and sea - which are broken up into chapters. Each chapter of the book consists of a different invention, along with technical drawings and statistics, and a description of its operation. As Parsons explains in the introduction, the book is "two-fisted pulp history," and each chapter also has a hypothetical deployment situation and a short fictional story based on the hypothetical deployment history. The fictional stories all take place in the same fictionalized world, and the characters in the stories occasionally run into each other over the course of the war. Four characters are used in the fictional stories: Robert E. Lincoln, an American war reporter; Konrad Fleischer, a German fighter pilot; Viktor Fleischer, a German tank commander, and Avdotya Donetskov, a Soviet sniper.

The inventions described in the book are as follows.

Land

Air