Russian Tanks of WWII: Stalin's Armored Might - Softcover

Page, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0760313024 ISBN 13: 9780760313022

Publisher: Zenith Press, 2002

Synopsis

Russian Tanks is a pictorial record of Soviet armored forces before and during World War II. The dramatic struggle of the tank crews against German advance is told through the photographs in the book, some of which have never been published before. Included are images of tank training in the 1920's and 1930's, photographs taken on active service, and dramatic pictures of the major tank battles of the war. They are complemented by an authoritative history of the Soviet armored forces, from their inception to their triumphant 1945 entry into Berlin.

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Synopsis

At the start of the campaign on the Eastern Front, in the earliest days of Operation Barbarossa, it was the German armour that swept all in front of it as the Wehrmacht drove eastwards in an unrelenting advance on Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad. The ill-prepared and under-resourced Russian forces were forced to retreat. Gradually, the balance of the war swung in favour of the Russian forces, whose strength both in numbers and equipment proved decisive in the ultimate defeat of the German forces in the east. Critical in the Soviet victory was its armour; tanks such as the T-34 proving the equal, if not better than, some of the tanks available to the Germans. This authoritative history of the Soviet forces before and during World War 2, reveals the development of their tactics in the early post-revolutionary era right through to the ultimate victory in Berlin in May 1945. The dramatic struggle of the tank crews against the German advance is told through some 200 contemporary photographs, many of which have never been seen before.

The photographs include images of tank training in the 1920s and 1930s, on active service, and many compelling pictures from some of the major tank battles of the day. Over the past five years, aided by the opening up of archives in Russia previously closed to western experts, there has been a massive growth in interest in the events that occurred on the Eastern Front. Russian Tanks is an important addition to the literature currently available, exploring as it does, the vitally important Soviet armour of the period.

About this edition

• Publisher: Zenith Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0760313024
• ISBN 13: 9780760313022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176