Tanks of the interwar period: 1918-1939. Tanks, theory, combat application
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Tanks of the interwar period: 1918-1939. Tanks, theory, combat application
19.99 €
The period between World War I and World War II allowed the militaries of industrialized countries to develop and test the concepts of armoured vehicles and create new tank models. This book, also based on archival documents, for the first time tells in detail about the theory of tank use in Great Britain, Germany, the USSR and the USA, the results of maneuvers and the development of new equipment in different countries, the combat use of tanks in large and "small wars". The author gives answers to the most difficult questions: why the defeated Germans, strictly restrained in the development of armaments, were able to rapidly create one of the most powerful armies in the world? Who did the Wehrmacht officers consider their teachers? How many tanks did Tukhachevsky want and what kind of tanks? How do the peculiarities of the wars of the 1920s and the first half of the 1930s resemble recent local conflicts? From the last tank shots of World War I and the battles of the Russian Civil War, the fields of training battles and "small wars" (the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, the fighting at Lake Hasan and at Khalkhin-Gol, where Soviet tankers met in battle with the troops of Imperial Japan, etc.), where maneuver maneuvers were created and maneuvers were used to fight the troops of the Imperial Japanese Empire, etc., to the battlefields of the "small wars".The book covers the history of the Soviet armored forces in China and the Spanish Civil War, where Soviet, German and Italian tanks met in the first real armored conflict in the history of wars, as well as the actions of the Red Army tanks in the Polish and Baltic campaigns, when the Second World War was already underway in Europe. The publication is illustrated with unique photographs.
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