Artillería - Alemania: libros - historia, modelos y técnica

K5 Rail Gun - Krupp's WWII Behemoth (Legends of Warfare)

Conocido por diversos nombres como Anzio Annie, Anzio Express y Leopold, el cañón ferroviario alemán de 8 cm Kanone 5 Eisenbahngeschütz, comúnmente abreviado como K5(E), se erige como el diseño de cañón ferroviario alemán más exitoso y utilizado.
Veinticuatro de estas formidables armas, capaces de bombardear Inglaterra desde posiciones en Francia, fueron utilizadas en múltiples frentes, incluyendo Francia, Italia, Rusia y Holanda.

Este libro ilustrado plasma el funcionamiento y el despliegue de estas temibles armas a través de 80 fotografías antiguas en blanco y negro.
Como complemento a las imágenes históricas, se incluyen más de 150 fotografías a todo color que muestran los únicos ejemplares que se conservan, ofreciendo información detallada sobre los matices de la construcción de estos enormes cañones ferroviarios.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	David Doyle
Presentación:	128 páginas, 23 x 23 x 1.9 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	80 fotos en b/n y 150 a color
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Schiffer Publishing Ltd (USA, 2023)
Colección:	Legends of Warfare
ISBN:	9780764366444

World War II German Super-Heavy Siege Guns (Osprey)

As the outbreak of World War II approached, Germany ordered artillery manufacturers Krupp and Rheimetall-Borsig to build several super-heavy siege guns, vital to smash through French and Belgian fortresses that stood in the way of the Blitzkrieg.
These 'secret weapons' were much larger than the siege artillery of World War I and included the largest artillery piece of the war, the massive 80 cm railway gun 'schwere Gustav' (Heavy Gustav). However, these complex and massive artillery pieces required years to build and test and, as war drew near, the German High Command hastily brought several WWI-era heavy artillery pieces back into service and then purchased, and later confiscated, a large number of Czech Skoda mortars.

The new super siege guns began entering service in time for the invasion of Russia, notably participating in the attack on the fortress of Brest-Litovsk. The highpoint for the siege artillery was the siege of Sevastopol in the summer of 1942, which saw the largest concentration of siege guns in the war.
Afterwards, when Germany was on the defensive in the second half of 1943, the utility of the guns was greatly diminished, and they were employed in a piecemeal and sporadic fashion on both the Eastern and Western Fronts.

In total, the German Army used some 50 siege guns during World War II, far more than the thirty-five it had during World War I. Supported by contemporary photographs and detailed artwork of the guns and their components, this is an essential guide to these guns, exploring their history, development, and deployment in stunning detail.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Marc Romanych , Martin Rupp
Presentación:	48 páginas, 25 x 18.5 x 0.8 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	ricamente ilustrado con fotos en b/n y color
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2020)
Colección:	New Vanguard
ISBN:	9781472837172

German Artillery 1914-1918 (Fact File)

The importance of artillery in warfare grew more and more throughout the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. New developments such as solid cannon barrels improved hit accuracy and the range of projectiles. This Fact File volume focuses on German Artillery during the Great War, when it could be argued that artillery was for the first time the dominant weapon on the battlefield. Wolfgang Fleischer discusses the diversity of artillery developed and used during the First World War by the Germans.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Wolfgang Fleischer
Presentación:	128 páginas, 20.5 x 14 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	151 fotos en b/n y 7 a color, 42 dibujos
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Pen & Sword Books Ltd (GB, 2015)
Colección:	Fact File
ISBN:	9781473823983

German Heavy Artillery Guns 1933-1945 (Fact File)

Covers large calibre artillery guns beyond a diameter of 75 mm, used by the Germans during the Second World War. Whilst artillery was perhaps no longer the dominant force it had been in the trench warfare of the Great War, it was nevertheless essential, both in air defence and against tanks.

This volume of the Fact File series presents the most important of the largest German artillery and air defence weapons, as well as railway guns and launchers. A meticulously researched and superbly illustrated book, which provides a compact and competent overview.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Alexander Lüdeke
Presentación:	128 páginas, 20.5 x 14 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	113 fotos en b/n y 40 a color, 5 dibujos
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Pen & Sword Books Ltd (GB, 2015)
Colección:	Fact File
ISBN:	9781473823990

Hitler's Artillery 1939-1945 - Rare photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War)

A highly illustrated record of the firepower of the German war machine between 1939 - 1945. Many of the photographs, all from the author's collection, come originally from the albums of individuals who took part in the war.

The images and text cover the guns in service with the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS and provide a unique visual record of artillery pieces. These include the 7.5cm 1.IG18, the 10.5cm infantry gun, the powerful 15cm field howitzer, heavy 18cm and 21cm mortars and others including captured French, British and Russian guns.
These and other weapons are seen in action in Poland, the Low Countries, France, Balkans, North Africa, Italy and, of course, Russia.

Initially a key part of the Blitzkrieg offensive concept, the emphasis became defensive as the tide turned against the Germans. Using over 250 rare and unpublished photographs together with detailed captions and accompanying text, this book provides a unique insight into German weaponry from early Blitzkrieg campaigns to the final demise of the Nazi empire.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Hans Seidler
Presentación:	160 páginas, 24.5 x 19 x 1.3 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	300 fotos en b/n
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Pen & Sword Books Ltd (GB, 2015)
Colección:	Images of War
ISBN:	9781783463770

42cm 'Big Bertha' and German Siege Artillery of World War I (Osprey)

In the early days of World War I, Germany unveiled a new weapon - the mobile 42cm (16.5 inch) M-Gerät howitzer. At the time, it was the largest artillery piece of its kind in the world and a closely guarded secret.
When war broke out, two of the howitzers were rushed directly from the factory to Liege where they quickly destroyed two forts and compelled the fortress to surrender. After repeat performances at Namur, Maubeuge and Antwerp, German soldiers christened the howitzers 'Grosse' or 'Dicke Berta' (Fat or Big Bertha) after Bertha von Krupp, owner of the Krupp armament works that built the howitzers. The nickname was soon picked up by German press which triumphed the 42cm howitzers as Wunderwaffe (wonder weapons), and the legend of Big Bertha was born.

This book details the design and development of German siege guns before and during World War I. Accompanying the text are many rare, never-before-published photographs of 'Big Bertha' and the other German siege guns. Colour illustrations depict the most important aspects of the German siege artillery.

Contents: Introduction - Design & Development - Operational History - Variants - Bibliography - Index.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Marc Romanych, Martin Rupp
Presentación:	48 páginas, 25 x 18.5 x 0.3 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	ricamente ilustrado con fotos y dibujos (en b/n y color)
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2014)
Colección:	New Vanguard (205)
ISBN:	9781780960173

German Artillery in World War II, 1939-1945

Never before in German military history did the German Artillery possess such variety and magnitude as in the World War II era. From North Cape to Tobruk, Biscay to Lapland, Den Helder to the Caucasus, there were more than 1000 light and about 340 heavy artillery units, as well as the light and heavy field howitzer units, assault gun units, brigades and batteries, observation units, railroad batteries, mountain artillery units, light gun units and launcher regiments.

The German Artillery included 655,000 men in 1943, or 22 percent of all the soldiers who went into action. Thirty-nine German gun types and forty captured gun types from ten different European countries were utilized by these units.

The German Artillery took on special significance in the spring of 1943 when the fighting strength of the exhausted infantry began to decrease and armored vehicles became less and less effective in their battle against overwhelming Soviet power. During this period, the Artillery again and again provided the backbone of the German resistance and defense.

This volume of photographs presents a look into the operations, action and everyday life of the German artillery - a frequently over-looked aspect of Wehrmacht history.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Joachim Engelmann
Presentación:	176 páginas, 26.5 x 18.5 x 1.7 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	más de 400 fotos en b/n
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Schiffer Publishing Ltd (USA, 2004)
ISBN:	9780887407628

The Paris Gun - The Bombardment of Paris by the German Long-range Guns and the Great German Offensives of 1918

Relato de una serie de bombardeos sobre París realizados con un cañón de 21 cm especialmente construido, desde una distancia de aproximadamente 120 kilómetros (75 millas). Los bombardeos comenzaron el 23 de marzo y finalizaron el 9 de agosto de 1918. Se dispararon más de 300 proyectiles.
Esta es la historia de un cañón singular, al que los alemanes llamaban Pariskanone y que nuestras tropas denominaban erróneamente «Gran Bertha». El cañón tenía un calibre de 210 mm, una longitud de cañón de 130 pies, un peso total de 142 toneladas y un alcance máximo de aproximadamente 80 millas. Fue diseñado para bombardear París, sembrando alarma y desesperación entre una población que, a pesar de estar sometida a bombardeos aéreos, no tenía motivos para creer que estaba amenazada por la artillería enemiga.

Se describen el diseño, la fabricación, el entrenamiento de las tripulaciones y la preparación de los emplazamientos de tiro, pero el objetivo principal del libro es describir los cuatro bombardeos que se llevaron a cabo con esta arma y sus efectos, tanto materiales como morales.
El uso del cañón de París se incorporó a la planificación de las principales ofensivas alemanas de la primera mitad de 1918. El 21 de marzo fue el primer día del asalto y a las 7: 20 de la mañana del 23 de marzo se disparó el primer tiro. Los cuatro periodos en los que el cañón estuvo en funcionamiento fueron del 23 de abril al 1 de mayo. Del 27 de mayo al 11 de junio. Del 15 al 19 de julio y del 5 al 9 de agosto, día en que se disparó el último proyectil.

El autor, teniente coronel del Cuerpo de Artillería de los Estados Unidos, describe cada uno de estos bombardeos en el contexto de la ofensiva alemana en curso y el avance de las fuerzas terrestres. Existen diferentes cifras sobre el número total de proyectiles disparados, pero fueron al menos 300, y según The Times Diary and Index of the War, el total de bajas fue de 196 muertos y 417 heridos.

Reimpresión de N&M Press (publicado originalmente en 1930).

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Henry W. Miller
Presentación:	277 páginas, 21.5 x 14 x 1.8 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	32 ilustraciones b/n, 18 mapas
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Naval & Military Press Ltd (GB, 2003)
ISBN:	9781843426813

German Heavy Mortars

Photographs and text offer a thorough account of the German heavy mortars employed during WWII.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Joachim Engelmann
Presentación:	48 páginas, 18.5 x 28 x 0.2 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	fotos en b/n, dibujos
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Schiffer Publishing Ltd (USA, 1991)
ISBN:	9780887403224

Deutsche Steilfeuergeschütze - 1914-1945

High-angle guns were developed to hit targets that were not directly in the field of view. To achieve this and to be able to shoot over obstacles, they had to be fired at a steep angle.
Among the most famous and heaviest high-angle guns in Germany were the "Big Bertha" and the "Karl" mortar. They were used primarily against enemy fortresses as "concrete crackers".

Páginas del libro "Deutsche Steilfeuergeschütze - 1914-1945"

In this volume, Gerhard Taube tells how this type of weapon developed. He describes in detail the history of the heavy behemoths and their use in both world wars. Each type is presented with a photo, a historical description and a technical data sheet.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Gerhard Taube
Presentación:	192 páginas, 26.5 x 23 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	235 fotografías y dibujos en b/n
Idioma:	Alemán
Editorial:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2018)
ISBN:	9783613040755

Deutsche Eisenbahngeschütze

Railway guns are known to be cannons on rails. But what hardly anyone knows about is the variety of these monsters on rails that existed. Built to bring death and destruction over 100 kilometers or more, these cannons were considered the only means of causing damage behind enemy lines in a time when there were no rockets.

Páginas del libro "Deutsche Eisenbahngeschütze"

The fact that these long-range weapons were mostly nothing more than a waste of men and material is another story. This special edition by Gerhard Taube shows and describes the development, technology and use of German railway guns.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Gerhard Taube
Presentación:	184 páginas, 26.5 x 23 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	318 fotos en b/n, 30 dibujos
Idioma:	Alemán
Editorial:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2017)
ISBN:	9783613039759

Eisenbahnartillerie : Einsatzgeschichte der deutschen Eisenbahnartillerie im Westen 1940 bis 1945 - Eine Dokumentation

This documentation presents the railway artillery units with their guns, their firing positions and operations - with a focus on the Belgian and French coasts - and describes suggestions for visiting the facilities that still exist today.

Deployment plans for the 80 cm Gustav guns and for new types of ammunition (Röchling grenades and Peenemünder arrow projectiles) are presented, as is the withdrawal of the units from Belgium/France and the whereabouts of the guns.
The areas of deployment of the railway artillery in Italy, Russia, Norway and the Netherlands are also presented. The descriptions are supplemented by overview maps, structural diagrams and a large number of photos.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Wolfgang Gückelhorn, Detlev Paul
Presentación:	288 páginas, 29 x 21.5 x 2.5 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	523 fotos en b/n y 108 a color, 188 dibujos
Idioma:	Alemán
Editorial:	Helios-Verlag (D, 2014)
ISBN:	9783869331164

Deutsche Artillerie 1914-1918 (Typenkompass)

Although originally reviled by traditional arms, the importance of artillery for warfare in Europe had grown steadily. New developments such as rifled gun barrels in the 19th century significantly improved the accuracy and range of projectiles.

Páginas del libro "Deutsche Artillerie 1914-1918"

In the Typenkompass "Deutsche Artillerie 1914-1918", Wolfgang Fleischer presents the entire variety of tube artillery used during the war.
Each type is presented using a photo, a historical description and a technical data sheet.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Wolfgang Fleischer
Presentación:	128 páginas, 20.5 x 14 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	151 fotos en b/n y 7 a color, 42 dibujos
Idioma:	Alemán
Editorial:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2013)
Colección:	Typenkompass
ISBN:	9783613035454