Armoured cars - Germany: books - history, types and construction

Armored Vehicles of the German Army 1905-1945

Volume on German armored vehicles from 1905-1945. Spielberger, a leading expert in the field of German military vehicles, presents the wide variety of four-, six-, and eight-wheeled types and their wide range of uses in this richly illustrated technical documentation. Types include the WWII era Sd.Kfz.231, Sd.Kfz.222, Sd.Kfz.232, and many others from a wide variety of manufacturers.

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Author:	Walter J. Spielberger
Details:	168 pages, 28.5 x 22.5 x 2.1 cm / 11.2 x 8.9 x 0.83 in, hardback
Illustrations:	numerous b&w photos and drawings
Publisher:	Schiffer Publishing Ltd (USA, 2008)
Series:	Spielberger
ISBN:	9780764329418

German Armoured Cars and Reconnaissance Half-Tracks 1939-1945 (Osprey)

Flexibility, mobility, and the ability to effectively communicate were all key requirements that the units operating armoured cars and reconnaissance half-tracks demanded - and that were also crucial to the Panzerwaffe and German Army as a whole.
Bryan Perrett's treatment of the development and history of German armoured cars and recce vehicles fully accounts for the crucial role that such units, and more importantly their vehicles, played during the course of World War II. Full orders of battle are also given, along with technical details and specifications of the vehicles assigned to particular units.

Contents: Development - Organisation and Method - Armoured Reconnaissance in Action.

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Author:	Bryan Perrett, Bryan Perrettt
Details:	48 pages, 24.5 x 18.5 x 0.4 cm / 9.7 x 7.3 x 0.16 in, paperback
Illustrations:	photos and drawings (in b&w and colour)
Publisher:	Osprey Publishing (GB, 1999)
Series:	New Vanguard (29)
ISBN:	9781855328495

German Reconnaissance and Support Vehicles 1939-1945 - Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War)

The Wehrmacht used reconnaissance and support vehicles widely in the Second World War and this book sets out to show the full range of both categories using over 200 rare images and descriptive text and captions in true Images of War Series fashion.

Both tracked and wheeled vehicles were employed for reconnaissance and screening. These included light tanks mainly comprising of the Pz.Kpfw.I, armoured cars such as the six and eight wheeler Sd.Kfz. 231, 232, 233, 234 and its variants, 263, the Sd.Kfz. 221, 222, 223, 234 and 247, motorcycles such as the famous BMW R75, the Zündapp KS750.

In addition to their recce role they would, when possible, engage similar or 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.
The book fills a gap by outlining the full range of such equipment including the variety of armaments and power plants, and the crews that performed these missions.

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Author:	Paul Thomas
Details:	144 pages, 24.5 x 19 x 1.3 cm / 9.7 x 7.5 x 0.51 in, paperback
Illustrations:	250 b&w photos
Publisher:	Pen & Sword Books Ltd (GB, 2018)
Series:	Images of War
ISBN:	9781526720894

The Complete Guide to German Armored Vehicles

Here is a jam-packed visual encyclopedia of the armored vehicles used by the Nazi forces in World War II. With over six hundred photos, many of which never before seen by the public, this book offers military historians a unique look at the German war machine.

David Doyle, award-winning author of dozens of books on the subject, provides mechanical information, photos, and usage history for:
- Armored cars
- Half-tracksTanks
- Assault guns
- Jagdpanzers
- Panzerjäger
- Self-propelled guns, howitzers, and mortars
- Flakwagens
- Flammpanzers
- Recovery vehicles
- Armored Engineer vehicles

An encyclopedic resource by an authority on the subject, "The Complete Guide to Armored Vehicles" is a must-have for modelers, gamers, and WWII buffs alike.

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Author:	David Doyle
Details:	328 pages, 25.5 x 20.5 cm / 10 x 8.1 in, hardback
Illustrations:	600+ b&w photos
Publisher:	Skyhorse Publishing (USA, 2019)
ISBN:	9781510716575

Gepanzerte Radfahrzeuge des Heeres bis 1945 (Spielberger)

The deadlocked fronts in World War I accelerated the development of armored vehicles with internal combustion engines by all warring parties. Because they were more dependent on roads, armored wheeled vehicles had different tasks than those with tracked drives.

Walter Spielberger documents the motorization of the German armed forces up to 1945. He describes all the important wheeled vehicle models that were used by the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht, starting with Daimler's first road armored car and the tank dummies in the Weimar Republic to radio-controlled vehicles in the Second World War.

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Author:	Walter J. Spielberger, Hilary Louis Doyle
Details:	168 pages, 26.5 x 23 cm / 10.4 x 9.1 in, hardback
Illustrations:	195 b&w photos, 37 drawings
Publisher:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2017)
Series:	Spielberger
ISBN:	9783613040151