Personenkraftwagen (2. WK) - Deutschland: Bücher - Geschichte

Personenkraftwagen der Wehrmacht - Kübelwagen, Einheits-PKW, eingezogene und erbeutete Personenwagen im Einsatz

Die Entwicklung von Personenkraftwagen in der Wehrmacht und ihre kriegsmäßigen Einsätze werden in diesem Bildband anhand von historischen Dokumenten und Bildmaterial, vorwiegend aus privaten Beständen ehemaliger Soldaten, umfassend dokumentiert.

Pkws mit den unterschiedlichsten Aufbauten hatten ihre Aufgabe u.a. als Führungs- und Verbindungswagen, als Funk-, Nachrichten- und Erkundungsfahrzeug, als Pak-Zugmittel, Gefechtsfahrzeug oder Kradschützenwagen zu erfüllen. Dabei zeigt die hier zusammengefasste Vielzahl von zivilen in- und ausländischen Pkws deutlich, dass bei der Wehrmacht ein notorischer Fahrzeugmangel herrschte.

Neben den verschiedenen Kübelwagen-Ausführungen werden in diesem Buch auch die heereseigenen "Einheits-Pkws", Typ leicht, mittel und schwer, mit ihren allradgetriebenen Einheitsfahrgestellen ausführlich vorgestellt.
Die ersten Einheits-Pkws kamen 1937 zur Truppe und sollten durch ihre Normung und Typisierung eine rationellere Herstellung und erleichterte Ersatzversorgung gewährleisten. Dass die einheitliche Fahrzeugausstattung für die meisten Verbände nur eine Wunschvorstellung blieb, verdeutlichen nicht nur die vielen deutschen Zivilfahrzeuge von Adler, Audi, BMW über Hanomag, Hansa, Horch bis Phänomen, VW und Wanderer, die als "Ergänzungsfahrzeuge" von privaten Haltern, Firmen und Behörden beschlagnahmt wurden, sondern auch die große Zahl eingesetzter Beutefahrzeuge.
Mit über 300 Fotos und technischen Kurzangaben werden die Pkws sachkundig beschrieben.

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Kfz. 1, 2, 3 & 4 : Light Off-Road Passenger Cars (Camera On)

"The leichter geländegängiger Personenkraftwagen, or l.gl. Einheits-Pkw - light off-road passenger cars - were manufactured by Stoewer, Hanomag and BMW from 1936 to early 1944. The superstructures were delivered by ten different companies and were identical from each manufacturer.

Early versions had both 4-wheel drive and steering which later was dropped to just 4 wheel drive and front wheel steering. These off road cars were used by the German Army in four distinct versions with the designations Kfz. 1, Kfz. 2, Kfz. 3 and Kfz. 4.

This new photo-album in the "Camera On" series contains over 120 photos of these vehicles during WWII.

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Cars of the Wehrmacht - A Photo Chronicle

Covers the use and design of the numerous cars used by the Wehrmacht during WWII.

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Rare Wheels (1) - A Pictorial Journey of Lesser-Known Soft-Skins 1934-45

This book presents many of the lesser-known vehicles that served without glamour or fame around the battlefields of World War Two. Rarely did they receive the headlines from war correspondents, nor were they the stars of the propaganda newsreels, as were the famed Tigers, Panthers and Shermans.

Fortunately, many of these anonymous workhorses were captured in photos taken by the soldiers serving alongside them, and thereby preserving a piece of history.

Seiten aus dem Buch "Rare Wheels (1) - A Pictorial Journey of Lesser-Known Soft-Skins 1934-45"

The book will take the reader on a journey starting with pre-war preparations and then across the early campaigns in France and Poland, through Ukraine, Russia and North Africa. The final section is dedicated to the dramatic unfolding of the German surrender in Czechoslovakia in May 1945.

A variety of cars, trucks, buses and other soft-skins are presented, mainly in large-format photos, serving both as a reference and as a source of inspiration for modellers. Manufacturers such as Krupp, Büssing-Nag, Horch, Adler, Mercedes, BMW, Steyr, Opel, Henschel, ZiS, GAZ, Praga, Ford, Citroen and Matford are all represented, to mention a few.

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Schwerer Geländegängiger Personenkraftwagen and Successors (Camera On)

This new photo album from the "Camera On" series it is the first to cover such a broad selection of Germanys heavy off-road passenger cars. It includes both the Schwerer Geländegängiger Personenkraftwagen and its successors, the Horch 108 type 1 and its licenced build Ford type EG equivalents as well as the heavy cars built on light truck chassis such as the Steyr 1500 and Mercedes 1500A & S types.

This book contains 140+ photographs of German heavy passenger cars photographed in operation in the conditions they had to work in. This volume illustrates these vehicles as the soldiers themselves viewed them in both their working environment and indeed in many case the home they had to live in, not the highly polished and sanitized views of the official photographers.

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Staff Cars in Germany - WW 2 (Vol. 1) (Camera On)

This photo-album in the "Camera On" series contains over 150 photographs of private cars adapted for military use by the German forces during WWII. With mobilization of the German armed forces in 1939, the lack of motorized transport was identified as a critical issue.
In order to partly remedy this, the military commandeered much of both Germany's and its satellite dependencies' passenger car stock; thus the military motor pool was supplemented by thousands confiscated civilian passenger cars, which were partially adapted to military use.
Commercial and private limousines as well as hard tops and cabriolets cars were used.

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Staff Cars in Germany - WW 2 (Vol. 2) - Opel (Camera On)

This latest photo-album in the "Camera On" series contains 150 more photographs of private cars adapted for military use by the German forces during WW II.
The remainder of the Opel motor company major production types are covered - the car types that were not covered in volume 1 - such as the Opel P-4 that was also used as the basis of many of the pre-war mock-up training tanks used by the German army due to the lack of real tanks to train with. The Opel Kadett (cadet), the Opel Super 6, the Opel Kapitan (Captain) and at the top of the range, the luxurious Opel Admiral.

In this volume the author provides a detailed impression of these vehicles through original photographs, taken both during and before the war by the normal German soldiers who both used and served with these now classic automobiles.

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Staff Cars in Germany - WW2 (Vol. 3) - Mercedes (Camera On)

Dieser Band zeigt eine fotografische Dokumentation der Mercedes-Modelle, die während des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Deutschland genutzt wurden. Es handelt sich um den dritten Teil der Reihe und behandelt die Haupttypen, darunter den Mercedes 170, die Baureihen 230-260, den 320 und den 540.

Der Autor vermittelt einen detaillierten Eindruck dieser Fahrzeuge anhand von Originalaufnahmen, die größtenteils von einfachen deutschen Soldaten vor und während des Krieges gemacht wurden. Diese Bilder, ergänzt durch klare Erläuterungen, zeigen, wie die Autos sowohl im militärischen als auch im alltäglichen Einsatz genutzt wurden.
Reich illustriert bewahrt dieses Buch die Geschichte jener Mercedes-Fahrzeuge, die Teil des deutschen Kriegsverkehrs waren.

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