Our mission is to transform the most popular works of legendary authors to modern reading room. We publish pdf books on many subjects for readers of all ages including Fiction, Non-Fiction, Academic and Children's writings. It describes how the Germans carefully built up their assault forces utilizing all available reserves and resources into making an effective fighting machine.
It depicts how these awesome formations grew to be used four years later in war, and provides much historical information and facts about the vehicles and its components that fought in all the campaigns of the war from the early victorious Blitzkrieg in Poland and France to the last ditch defense in Germany in Each chapter features unseen photographs of light tanks, main battle tanks, assault guns, anti-tank destroyers, artillery, reconnaissance units, support vehicles, pioneers with their bridge building platforms and the motorized infantry or Panzergrenadiers.
This book is a visual treat for the military enthusiast and collector and a worthy addition to the Images of War series. It describes how the Germans carefully utilized the development of these light machines for war, and depicts how these tanks were adapted and up-gunned to face the ever-increasing enemy threat.
Using rare and unpublished photographs together with detailed captions and accompanying text, Hitler's Light Panzers At War provides a unique insight into the many variants that saw action on the battlefield. It provides a vivid account of light Panzer operational deployment from the early Blitzkrieg campaigns to the final demise of the Nazi war machine. It describes how the Germans carefully utilized the development of these light machines for war, and depicts how these tanks were adapted and up-gunned to face the ever-increasing enemy threat.??
Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history of their design, development and wartime service is an ideal introduction to them. Although by the time the Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union in , the Panzer I had been virtually phased out of service, in the form of self-propelled guns they continued to see combat well into The Panzer II was also phased out with the panzer regiments in late , yet it remained in action on secondary fronts and, as the self-propelled Marder II antitank gun and Wespe artillery variant, it saw active service with the panzer and panzer grenadier divisions until the end of the war.
Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this volume in the Images of War series, provides a visual account of the tank in over wartime photographs and describes in a concise text its development and operational history.
Although it lacked adequate firepower and could not match more advanced Allied tanks like the T, it stayed in service in North Africa and on the Eastern Front and it was still encountered in action in Normandy towards the end of the war. Its reliable chassis was also adapted for assault gun production. In this form, as the Sturmgeschtz III, it took part in the defensive battles fought by the Wehrmacht as it retreated in Italy, France and eastern Europe.
Anthony Tucker-Jones's selection of photographs show the Panzer III in every theater of the war and at every stage, and his text gives an insight into the design history and fighting performance of this historic armored vehicle.
Despite a worsening strategic situation both on the Eastern Front and in the West, Hitlers Panzers and their highly motivated crews showed superior tactical abilities and killing power abut such was the overall picture that this was not enough to alter the course of the war as the Allies closed remorselessly in on Berlin. Covered in this superb book are many variants, some well known and others less so including often modified, up-armoured and up-gunned models.
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