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During the Second World War the Axis powers, most prolifically the Germans, deployed a vast array of armored fighting vehicles to support their tanks and infantry. These included tank destroyers, reconnaissance vehicles, flame-thrower vehicles, and self-propelled artillery pieces. Armored tank destroyers, such as the "Marder" series, the "Nashorn", "Jagdpanther", "Jagdtiger" and the turretless german Sturmgeschütz III series (based on the medium tank Panzer III), helped the Nazis overcome their shortage of tanks. Copying the Sturmgeschütz 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 "Brummbär" and the "Sturmtiger" performed in the dedicated assault gun role. For armored 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 armored cars. Specialized antiaircraft tanks such the "Möbelwagen", "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.
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- Books (first-hand)
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- Green, Michael
- Title
- Images of War. Axis Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the Second World War. Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
- Details
- English text, paperback, 250 bw- and colour photos. 208 pages.
- Series
- Images of War
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