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Deutsche Panzertechnik. Motoren und Getriebe 1925-1945
39,90 €Early on, tank-building nations experimented with different types of engines and designs. Germany initially lagged behind, but then began to adapt Maybach engines – originally intended for use in trucks and luxury cars – accordingly before the start of the official rearmament.
Closely related to this was the question of steerability, and hardly any details have been found about all these factors so far, until now: Michael Fröhlich dedicates a well-founded reference work on the subject of German tank engines, as well as manual and steering transmissions.
Many never-before-seen illustrations, technical drawings and sketches complete the volume.
563 pictures (b/w and colour pictures (of today, also details), b/w and coloured technical drawings). -
Life & Death on the Eastern Front. The Rare Colour Photographs from the Second World War
37,95 €This incredible visual record of life and death along the Eastern Front draws from the PIXPAST Archive, a collection built by Ian Spring of more than 32,000 original colour photographs taken between 1936 and 1946. Collated into three parts and organised thematically, the book begins with images of the ground war, including Hitlers invasion of the Soviet Union and the tanks, vehicles, weaponry and infantry on both sides.
Moving into the war in the skies, the images depict aircraft in flight and on the ground, the bombers, fighters, Luftwaffe personnel and the destruction wrought from battle. And finally, the images take us behind the lines, to the prisoners of war, partisans, medics, the daily lives and leisure activities of soldiers and civilians along the front and the impact of the harsh Russian winter.
With 250 photographs and text by renowned author and commentator Anthony Tucker-Jones, these images offer a rare, often surprising insight into the realities of the Second World War and people caught up in it, in vivid colour detail.