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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.

Die festgefahrenen Fronten im Ersten Weltkrieg beschleunigten die Entwicklung von gepanzerten Fahrzeugen mit Verbrennungsmotoren bei allen Kriegsparteien. Gepanzerte Radfahrzeugen kamen dabei wegen ihrer grösseren Strassengebundenheit andere Aufgaben zu als denen mit Kettenlaufwerk.

Walter Spielberger dokumentiert die Motorisierung der deutschen Streitkräfte bis 1945. Dabei beschreibt er alle wichtigen Radfahrzeugmodelle, die bei Reichswehr und Wehrmacht zum Einsatz kamen, angefangen von Daimlers erstem Strassenpanzerwagen über die Panzerattrappen in der Weimarer Republik bis hin zu Funkkraftwagen im Zweiten Weltkrieg.

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.

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.

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.