Scouts Out is the definitive account of German armored reconnaissance in World War II, essential for historians, armor buffs, collectors, modelers, and wargamers, and the first extensive treatment of the subject in English.
Armor expert Zaloga enters the battle over the best tanks of World War II with this heavy-caliber blast of a book armed with more than forty years of research.
Photo chronicle of the German-Soviet campaign on the Eastern Front during its first brutal winter after Operation Barbarossa ground to a halt outside Moscow.
*; Hundreds of photos--many of them rare--of Tiger tanks and their crews *; Color illustrations by Jean Restayn focus on markings, camouflage, and insignia *; Inventories and timelines for each unit In this follow-up to Tigers in Combat I (0-8117-3171-5), Wolfgang Schneider turns his attention to the Tiger tanks of the Waffen-SS and the Wehrmachts named units, such as the Grodeutschland Division, Company Hummel, and Tiger Group Meyer.
Filled with fine-scale drawings of British armored vehicles, including:*; Stuart I Light Tank*; Crusader III*; Tank*; Humber Scout Car*; Valentine Bridgelayer*; Cromwell IV Tank Daimler Armored Car*; And dozens more .
Profiles of the 98 German soldiers--out of millions--who received both the Knight's Cross (for extreme bravery) and the Close-Combat Clasp in Gold (for at least 50 days of hand-to-hand fighting) during World War II.