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Flak-Artillerie

Flak-Artillerie

Anderson, Thomas

Hardcover

German HistoryWeaponry & VehiclesWorld War II

Publisher Price: $50.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 5, 2027

ISBN10: 1472865553
ISBN13: 9781472865557
Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
Published: Jan 5 2027
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 7.48 Depth: 9.53
Language: English

Based on first-hand accounts, original documentation and unpublished images, this is a highly illustrated history of the Flak-Artillerie in World War II.

Until the late 19th century wars were fought on land or at sea, but the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 saw the first use of hot-air balloons and aerial warfare was born. The Prussian Army sought a way to counter this development, and introduced the Krupp-built 3.7cm Ballon-Abwehrkanone - the first anti-aircraft weapon, and the source of all future German Flak-Artillerie.

In this new study, German armour expert Thomas Anderson traces the story of German anti-aircraft artillery through the rapid advances of World War I, though the interwar years to the rise of Nazism, German rearmament and World War II. Drawing on after-action reports, original wartime documents and rare and previously unseen photographs, he traces the development of increasingly sophisticated self-propelled anti-aircraft weapons through to the fully armoured Flakpanzer culminating in the Kugelblitz, the Flakpanzer 341 built on the PzKpfw V Panther chassis.

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