Download or read book Captured Armored Cars and Other Vehicles in Wehrmacht Service in World War II written by Werner Regenberg and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2004-09-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covered is the variety of British, French, American, Russian and other armored cars used by the Wehrmacht.
Download or read book Captured Tanks in German Service written by Werner Muller and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captured Tanks in German Service: Small Tanks and Armored Tractors 1939-45
Download or read book German Military Vehicles of World War II written by Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-03-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a cross-section of the most common transport vehicles produced and used by the German army. Tanks plus auxiliary vehicles such as cars, motorcycles, vans, ambulances, trucks and tractors made it possible for the troops to keep moving. These lightly armored or unarmored vehicles--aka "soft skins"--operated behind the front lines, maintaining supply lines, connecting armies with their home bases, and ultimately determining the outcome of battle. Beginning with the development of military vehicles in the early 1930s, this volume discusses the ways in which this new technology influenced and, to some extent, facilitated Hitler's program of rearmament. Nomenclature, standard equipment, camouflage and the combat roles of the various vehicles are thoroughly examined. Individual vehicle types are arranged and discussed by the following classifications: cars and motorcycles; trucks and tractors; half-tracks and wheeled combat vehicles. Accompanied by well-researched, detailed line drawings, each section deals with a number of individual vehicles, describing their design, manufacture and specific use.
Download or read book Hitler s Great Panzer Heist written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prowess of the German panzers is the stuff of legend, but it is not generally known that Hitler stole thousands of British, Czech, French, Italian, Polish, and Soviet tanks and armored fighting vehicles to feed his war machine. At its height, more than 25 percent of the German tank fleet was of foreign origin. In this meticulously research investigation, Anthony Tucker-Jones tells this hitherto unrecorded story, describing how captured fighting vehicles were reused by the German military throughout World War II.
Download or read book Captured Vehicles in Wehrmacht Service 1939 1945 written by Uwe Feist and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition printing (previously titled Beutepanzer 1939-45) contains hundreds of historical photos documenting the vast resources which fell into the German Army's hands during the early WWII campaigns in the Western and Eastern theater right up until 1945. Very little reference material is available regarding captured enemy war material used service by the Wehrmacht during the war, this book will fill the gap.Illustrated with photos from WWII veterans and archives, this book will be a great addition to any collection. It also makes a great companion to our last year's all-new release: 100 Jahre Deutsche Panzer 1918?2018.
Download or read book Alamein written by Stephen Bungay and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Alamein was the World War II land battle Britain had to win. By the summer of 1942 Rommel's German forces were threatening to sweep through the Western Desert and drive on to the Suez Canal, and Britain was in urgent need of military victory. Then, in October, after 12 days of attritional tank battle and artillery bombardment, Montgomery's Eighth Army, with Australians and New Zealanders playing crucial roles in a genuinely international Allied fighting force, broke through the German and Italian lines at El Alamein. It was a turning-point in the war after which, in Churchill's words, "we never had a defeat". Stephen Bungay's book is as much at home analysing the crucial logistics of keeping desert armies supplied with petrol and tank parts as it is reappraising the combat strategies of Montgomery and Rommel, and ranges widely from the domestic political pressures on Churchill to the aerial siege of Malta, key to the control of the Mediterranean. And in a chapter on "The Soldier's War", Bungay graphically evokes the phantasmagoric blur of thunderous cannonade and tormenting heat that was the lot of the individual men who actually fought and died in the desert.
Download or read book Nurnberg s Panzer Factory written by Roddy MacDougall and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captured Tanks WW2 written by Leo Lindberg and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captured & converted French vehicles in German service in workd war 2.
Download or read book In Deadly Combat written by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2000-06-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Herbert Bidermann served in that lethal theater from 1941 to 1945, and his memoir of those years recaptures the sights, sounds, and smells of the war as it vividly portrays an army marching on the road to ruin. A riveting and reflective account by one of the millions of anonymous soldiers who fought and died in that cruel terrain, In Deadly Combat conveys the brutality and horrors of the Eastern Front in detail never before available in English. It offers a ground soldier's perspective on life and death on the front lines, providing revealing new information concerning day-to-day operations and German army life. Wounded five times and awarded numerous decorations for valor, Bidermann saw action in the Crimea and siege of Sebastopol, participated in the vicious battles in the forests south of Leningrad, and ended the war in the Courland Pocket. He shares his impressions of countless Russian POWs seen at the outset of his service, of peasants struggling to survive the hostilities while caught between two ruthless antagonists, and of corpses littering the landscape. He recalls a Christmas gift of gingerbread from home that overcame the stench of battle, an Easter celebrated with a basket of Russian hand grenades for eggs, and his miraculous survival of machine gun fire at close range. In closing he relives the humiliation of surrender to an enemy whom the Germans had once derided and offers a sobering glimpse into life in the Soviet gulags. Bidermann's account debunks the myth of a highly mechanized German army that rolled over weaker opponents with impunity. Despite the vast expanses of territory captured by the Germans during the early months of Operation Barbarossa, the war with Russia remained tenuous and unforgiving. His story commits that living hell to the annals of World War II and broadens our understanding of its most deadly combat zone. Translator Derek Zumbro has rendered Bidermann's memoir into a compelling narrative that retains the author's powerful style. This English-language edition of Bidermann's dynamic story is based upon a privately published memoir entitled Krim-Kurland Mit Der 132 Infanterie Division.The translator has added important events derived from numerous interviews with Bidermann to provide additional context for American readers.
Download or read book German Support Vehicles on the Battlefield written by TOM. COCKLE and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will present the reader with photographs of a variety of motorized transport vehicles including cars and trucks, armored cars, and half-tracks, both armored and unarmored, used by the German Wehrmacht during World War II, along with some captured enemy vehicles that were pressed into service. This hardcover, landscape format book's brief introduction is followed by more than one hundred mainly unpublished photographs, printed in the highest possible quality. Both the introduction and the captions are bilingual (English/Hungarian).
Download or read book Trucks of the Wehrmacht written by Reinhard Frank and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the design and types of various trucks employed by the Wehrmacht.
Download or read book German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans 1941 1944 written by Robert M. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cars of the Wehrmacht written by Reinhard Frank and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1997-01-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the use and design of the numerous cars used by the Wehrmacht during WWII.
Download or read book Tiger Tanks at War written by Michael Green and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first prototype for the Tiger tank was set to be ready for Hitlers birthday on April 20, 1942. The Henschel Company, competing with Porsche, produced the superior model, and by August of that year the formidable Tiger--or Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf. H.--was in full production. This book takes us behind the scenes with the Tiger tank, reviewing the full history, the design and mechanics, and the mixed record of this machine, which was designed to outgun its Russian counterparts. Military writer Michael Green offers a close-up account--accompanied by photographs, diagrams, and maps--of how the Tiger tank operated, how it was armed, and where it succeeded brilliantly, as well as where it failed miserably. His book fills a fascinating niche in the history of military technology, and of the impact of technology on history itself.
Download or read book French Half tracks in German Service WW2 written by Leo Lindberg and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a look at Half-tracks (semi-tracks) of French vehicles that was conquored by the Wehrmacht during the second world war in France and later reused by the Wehrmacht. Either as is or after reconstruction or modification. The book is to be viewed as a pictorial, with a rich biliograhy for further information about these vehicles. These seem almost written out of history, and pictures of these are rare. This book collects over 100 pictures and drawings for the french Half-tracks (semi-tracks) in Wehrmacht use. All armies, whether it be due to necessity, curiosity, preference or mere opportunity, use weapons and equipment that are captured from the enemy. Arguably no other army in modern times, utilized captured foreign ordnance to such an extent as the Wehrmacht during World War II. It even went so far that these captured weapons and vehicles where assigned a Kenn nummer(identification numbers) by the Wehrmachts Waffenamt(German army's weapons department). Germany is often praised for their great engineering and their greatness in design of weapons. The problem for Germany after WW1 was that in production they were utterly behind France and England at the time. The amount of private cars and trucks are one of the indicators of that. There was lots of reasons why Germany lacked production capacity after the Great War, not only had it lost all its colonies, mainly to France and England, it had also been dismembered. Poland was again a free country, and Poland could produce to its own needs. Austria-Hungary was also dismembered, and broken up. The great weapons factories of Czechoslovakia was making weapons for the czechs themselves and exporting a great deal, instead of arming Austria and Germany
Download or read book Armored Vehicles and Units of the German Order Police Ordnungspolizei 1936 1945 written by Werner Regenberg and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the wide variety of vehicles used by the German police during World War II, as well as units and organization.
Download or read book German Reconnaissance and Support Vehicles 1939 1945 written by Paul Thomas and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This WWII pictorial history illustrates the full range of Nazi vehicles used in reconnaissance and support missions throughout the war. The German military used reconnaissance and support vehicles widely in the Second World War. This book illustrates the full range of these vehicles with authoritative information and more than 200 rare wartime photographs. Both tracked and wheeled vehicles were employed for reconnaissance and screening. These included light tanks such as the Panzer I and Panzer II, armored cars such as the six- and eight- wheeled Schwerer Panzerspähwagen, and motorcycles such as the famous BMW R75 or the Zundapp KS750. In addition to their recon role they would, on occasion, engage similar light units. Support vehicles such as the tracked Sd.Kfz.2 Kettenkrad, and the renowned Sd.Kfz.251 halftracks were used in the follow-up role, frequently with mounted grenadiers to mop up over-run enemy positions.
