Carri armati pesanti KV-1 e KV-2 - URSS: libri - storia

Fallen Giants : The Combat Debut of the T-35A Tank

Il T-35A sovietico è l'unico carro armato a cinque torrette della storia ad essere entrato in produzione. Con una lunga e gloriosa storia di servizio sui campi di parata sovietici, il T-35A fu costretto ad adattarsi al moderno campo di battaglia allo scoppio della Seconda Guerra Mondiale.
Superato e obsoleto, il T-35A tentò invano di resistere agli invasori tedeschi.

Si sa ben poco di questi strani veicoli, a parte la loro forma di base e le fotografie che li ritraggono nelle piazze d'armi e sui campi di battaglia. Per la prima volta, fotografie reali scattate sul campo di battaglia sono state confrontate con mappe e documenti per fornire la ricostruzione più completa finora realizzata del T-35A nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale.
Si tratta di una rappresentazione cupa delle conseguenze della distruzione causata dai giganteschi carri armati sovietici T-35A.

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KV Tanks on the Battlefield

Contains 120 photos of the KV-I, KV-II and KV-85 in Russian and German service. Large format photos, one to a page, mostly unpublished.

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Panzerjäger vs KV-1 - Eastern Front, 1941-42 (Osprey)

On the Soviet side, based upon lessons from the Spanish Civil War, the Red Army decided to develop a heavy "breakthrough" tank to smash enemy infantry defenses. This resulted in the KV-1 and KV-2 tanks, introduced in 1939.

At the start of Operation Barbarossa, both these tanks were virtually invulnerable to the weapons of the Panzerjäger and demonstrated their ability to overrun German infantry on several occasions. This advantage gave the Red Army a window of opportunity between the fall of 1941 and the spring of 1942 to use their heavy tanks to repel the German invasion in a series of desperate counteroffensives.

Yet the window of Soviet advantage was a narrow one and the duel between the Soviet KV heavy tanks and German Panzerjäger had a major impact upon the struggle for the strategic initiative in 1941-42.

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Stalin's Giants - KV-I and KV-II

This book covers the larger heavy tanks of Russia, the KV-I and KV-II.

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KV-1 & 2 Heavy Tanks, 1939-1945 (Osprey)

Named after Klimenti Voroshilov, the People's Commissar for Defence, the KVs proved a nasty surprise for German tank crews during the early days of Operation Barbarossa. Although slow, they were extremely heavily armoured.

This volume examines the transition from multi-turreted tanks to heavy single-turret vehicles, consisting of the KV-1 and 2, and the increased favour given to the heavy single-turret after the Germans began to develop ammunition capable of penetrating even the thickest armour, whilst detailing the design, development and operational history of the Soviet Union's monstrous KV series of tanks.

Contents: Design and Development - Inside the KV-1 - Operational History - Improvements in Armament - Variants - Tactical Problems.

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IS-2 Heavy Tank 1944-73 (Osprey)

The Iosef Stalin tanks were the ultimate heavy tanks developed by the Soviet Union and were popularly called 'Victory tanks' due to their close association with the defeat of Germany in 1945. Yet in spite of their reputation, the Stalin tanks emerged from a troubled design, had a brief moment of glory in 1944 and 1945, and disappeared in ignominy after 1960.

This title covers the events contributing to the Soviet Union's need to design the new series, with particular reference to the unsuccessful KV series and the advent of a new generation of heavy German tanks including the Tiger. It also covers their development, operational history and myriad variants.

Contents: Developmental History - Operational History - Post War History - Stalin Tanks in Foreign Service - Variants - Variants in Foreign Service.

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Schwere sowjetische Panzer 1930-1945

The Soviets began building heavy tanks earlier than the Germans. But the first models proved to be far too heavy and immobile. Later, after the outbreak of war, the heavy Russian tank KW-1 and in 1943 the JS-1 and 2, inspired by the German Tiger tank, surprised the world.

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In this volume, Alexander Lüdeke concentrates on the heavy Soviet tanks built from 1939 to 1945. He describes not only the main types T-35, T-100, the KW and JS series, but also numerous variants.
He also discusses the development and operational history of the types.

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