Halfrupsen - Duitsland: boeken - historie, typen en techniek

Volume on German halftracked vehicles from 1909-1945. Spielberger, a leading expert in the field of German military vehicles, presents the wide variety of halftracked types and their wide range of uses in this richly illustrated technical documentation. Types include the WWII era Sd.Kfz.7, Sd.Kfz.250, Sd.Kfz.251, and many others from a wide variety of manufacturers.

Im vorliegenden Band wird die Entwicklung der Halbketten-Zugkraftwagen der Wehrmacht dokumentiert. Von den leichten Ein- und Dreitonnern über die mittleren Fünf- bis Achttonner bis hin zu den schweren Zwölf- und Achtzehntonnern sind die wichtigsten Halbkettenfahrzeuge vertreten.

Viele technische Daten. Detaillierte Schnittzeichnungen. Über 100 historische Fotos, darunter viele seltene Archivaufnahmen.

This book offers numerous photographs and detailed text concerning the NSU Kettenkrad (Sd.Kfz. 2, Type HK-101).

The Wehrmacht realised that tanks would need to be accompanied into battle by supporting arms, specifically infantry, artillery and engineers. As a fully-tracked field army would be too expensive, semi-tracked support vehicles (commonly called half-tracks) were born.
The Germans commissioned numerous types of half-tracked tractors, which were classified by the weight of their towed load and designated Sonderkraffarzeug (special motorized vehicle), abbreviated to Sd.Kfz.

These front-wheel steering vehicles with tracked drive transformed the fighting quality of the armoured divisions making it possible for the infantry, artillery and engineers to keep up with the speed of the Panzers' advance. The half-track even became the preferred reconnaissance vehicle.

This addition to the highly successful and collectable Images of War series has a superb collection of rare images, supported by detailed captions and text, of the many Sd.Kfz variants in diverse theatres of war. It is worth reflecting that, without half-tracks, there could have been no Blitzkrieg.

A highly accessible overview of the history of fhe half-tracks and armoured wheeled vehicles with technical data, facts and pictures as used by German Wehrmacht in WW2.