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Axis Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the Second World War (Paperback)

Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Colour Books Military > Tanks Photographic Books WWII > Photographic Books

By Michael Green
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
Series: Images of War
Pages: 208
Illustrations: 250
ISBN: 9781473887046
Published: 5th March 2018

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During the Second World War the Axis powers, most prolifically the Germans, deployed a vast array of armoured fighting vehicles to support their tanks and infantry. These included tank destroyers, reconnaissance vehicles, self-propelled artillery pieces, flame-thrower vehicles and self-propelled artillery pieces.
Armoured tank destroyers, such as the Marder series, the Nashorn, Jagdpanther, Jagdtiger and the turretless German Stu III series (based on the Panzer III medium tank), helped the Nazis overcome their shortage of tanks. Copying the Stu III series the Italians created the turretless Semovente da 75/18 assault gun and the Hungarians the turretless Zrinyi.
In the role of self-propelled artillery the German fielded the Hummel, the Wespe and the Grille while the Brummbar and the Sturmtiger performed in the dedicated assault gun role.
For armoured reconnaissance German industry came up with a series of capable armored cars; examples were the eight-wheel Puma and the full-tracked Luchs reconnaissance tank. The Italians developed the impressive four-wheel Autoblinda armoured cars. Specialized anti-aircraft tanks such the Mobelwagen, Wirbelwind and the Ostwind gave some protection against the ever more powerful Allied air forces. This fine book covers all these variants and many more besides in words and rare images and will delight readers, collectors, model-makers and war-gamers.

Verdict: Packed with authoritative information presented in an easy to digest format.

Classic Military Vehicle, May 2019

Ideal for military historians, equipment buffs, model makers, war gamers and collectors, it is an affordable and authoritative addition to the popular Images of War series.

Military Vehicles magazine, August 2018

A really impressive Visual Documentation.

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José Manuél Rico Cortés (Mister JM) - Miniaturas JM

A recent addition to the Images of War series of books from Pen and Sword, and another from well known author Michael Green. As usual, he provides knowledgeable text accompanied by a fine selection of photos to illustrate that text. There is a good mix of archive and modern colour photos showing the wide variety of surviving examples from museum and private collections around the world, each with useful captions.

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About Michael Green

Michael Green is the author of numerous acclaimed books in the Images of War series, including Armored Warfare in the Vietnam War, The Patton Tank: Cold War Warrior, M1 Abrams Tank, Allied Tanks of the Second World War, Allied AFVs of the Second World War, Axis Tanks of the Second World War, Axis AFVs of the Second World War, American Military Helicopters, US Airborne Divisions, USMC in the Vietnam War, US Armored Divisions of the Second World War, US Marine Corps in the Korean War, American Artillery, NATO and Warsaw Pact Tanks of the Cold War and Red Army Weapons of the World War.

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