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The Tanks of World War II: The History and Legacy of Tank Warfare between the Allies and Axis by Charles River Editors is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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\*Includes pictures \*Includes accounts of the fighting \*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading \*Includes a table of contents World War II was thus the culmination of a quarter century of tank development, and it would also be the first major test of tanks in mobile warfare, during which they had to face other tanks. However, many of the tanks were constructed with the static warfare of the Western Front in mind and were thus slow and had short operational ranges. Others were too light to face opposing tanks or the new generation of anti-tank weapons that hadn’t existed in World War I. The unsuitability of these tank models for this new kind of warfare was quickly recognized, and the belligerent powers scrambled to create better designs. As each new, improved model came off the assembly lines, the opposing powers rushed to create a tank that could beat it. In that regard, World War II was also a war between rival engineers. At the same time, German military officials were at the forefront of developing new ideologies when it came to utilizing their tanks to maximum effect. Heinz Guderian even published a book on the topic before becoming one of the Third
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- Author
- Charles River Editors
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Technology, Stem