T-34. The Red Army's Legendary Medium Tank

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Pen And Sword
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 144 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: It could be said that the T-34 was the tank that won the Second World War. In total 57,000 were produced between 1941 and 1945. Stalins tank factories outstripped Hitlers by a factor of three to one, and production of the T-34 also exceeded that of the famed American M4 Sherman. Not only did this output swamp German panzer production, the T-34 was a robust no frills war-winning design “ easy to manufacture and reliable. Its sloping armor was innovative at the time and its wide tracks suited it to off-road warfare. Crucially it required little maintenance in comparison to German tanks, and its chassis was used as the basis for a range of assault guns, the SU-85, SU-100 and SU-122. Anthony Tucker-Joness photographic history of this exceptional armored vehicle follows its story through the course of the war, from its combat debut against the Wehrmacht during Operation Barbarossa, through the Red Armys defeats and retreats of 1941 and 1942 to the tide-turning victories at Stalingrad and Kursk and on through the long, rapid Soviet advance across Ukraine and Byelorussia to Berlin. As well as a range of rare archive photographs and photographs of a surviving example of the T-34, the book features specially commissioned color illustrations.

ISBN: 9781781590959