New PDF release: The Panzer IV: Hitler's Rock (Images of War)

By Anthony Tucker-Jones

ISBN-10: 1473856752

ISBN-13: 9781473856752

The Panzerkampfwagen Mk IV proved to be the only consistent in Hitler's Panzerwaffe through the moment international warfare - the German identical of the yank Sherman and the Soviet T-34. during this significant other quantity to his best-selling visible histories of the Tiger and Panther tanks, Anthony Tucker-Jones offers a concise account of the Mk IV's layout, improvement and function in wrestle. The Mk IV served on each significant entrance, in France, the Balkans, North Africa, the Soviet Union and, on the finish of the conflict, in Germany itself - it was once a key weapon within the blitzkrieg assaults introduced early within the battle and within the later determined security of the Reich.

Using over a hundred and fifty infrequent wartime photos, plus a variety of especially commissioned colour, he describes how the preliminary layout of the Mk IV was once changed and sophisticated during the process the clash to counter the threats posed via ever extra bold Allied tanks and antitank weapons at the battlefield. whereas the Mk IV used to be by no means produced within the similar numbers because the best Allied tanks, it used to be absolutely one of many crucial armored automobiles of the second one international warfare, and Anthony Tucker-Jones's hugely illustrated heritage is the appropriate advent to it.

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