SOVIET TANKS AND COMBAT VEHICLES OF WORLD WAR TWO

by Zaloga, Steven J. and Grandsen, James

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Book desription: Arms and Armour, London, 1984.. 240 pp, small 4to (10" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0853686068 Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings/diagrams, profiles. "In June 1941, 39 Russian armoured divisions stood ready to face the onslaught of Hitler's German Army.. With 20,000 tanks, the Russians enjoyed a superiority of 4:1 over their foes. Despite such odds, it took them more than two years to master the art of mobile warfare: for many of those 20,000 tanks were obsolete. It took time to build the T-34s. and KVs that would match the German Panzers on equal terms. And the problems of manufacture were rendered even more difficult by the fact that in the first months of the War, the Germans had overrun two-thirds of Russia's tank factories. The shee. r scale of the output of newly-established tank factories, well behind the fighting line, was itself a major feat, for the Eastern Front of World War Two - 'the Great Patriotic War' - outscaled all other fronts of the global conflict....Steve Zalog. a and Jim Grandsen bring years of experience, expertise and study to bear on the subject in this new, authoritative account. In addition to coverage of Imperial Russian vehicles and the mechanization of the Red Army during the 1920s and 1930s, the . co ntents include: Soviet Tank Design on the Eve of War; Organization of the Soviet Armoured Force; The Summer Catastrophe; The T-34 Medium Tank; Light Tanks; The KV Heavy Tank; Tank Unit Oganization; Mechanized Artillery Development; Katyusha Rocke. t L aunchers; The SU-76 Light Mechanized Gun; The KV-7 Mechanized Gun; Mechanized Artillery Units; The German Response; Tank Destroyers; The Battle of Kursk-Orel; The T-34-85 Medium Tank; The IS-2 Heavy Tank; Heavy Assault Guns; Light Mechanized Gun. s; T ank Destroyers of 1944; The T-44 Medium Tank; The K-90 Amphibious Tank; Light Fighting Vehicles; Airborne Fighting Vehicles; Engineer Tanks; Flame-thrower Tanks; Armoured Recovery Vehicles; Bridging Tanks; Anti-Aircraft Vehicles; Artillery Tran. sport ers; Armoured Trains; Lend-Lease Tanks; Lend-Lease armoured vehicles supplied to the Soviet Army; Soviet Tanks in Retrospect. Each vehicle's evolution, data and performance is described in detail, with superb line drawings and photographs to . comple te the picture." Previous owner's name on fornt pastedown, crease at bottom of gutter of pages 131/132, light wrinkling at top bottom of spine, very light edge wear, tiny dint at top edge of front board. Dust jacket has wrinkling at top/bot. tom of spine - light edge wrinkling elsewhere, tear and small chip at top of hinges, small loss of surface paper at bottom edge of front panel, tiny chip at bottom of front flap-fold, small faint water stain at top edge of front inside panel. Very . Good-/G ood+.

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