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Flak-Artillerie
Based on first-hand accounts original documentation and unpublished images this is a highly illustrated history of the Flak-Artillerie in World War II.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.
Features
- 304 pages
- Illustrated throughout
- Hardcover
- Dimensions are 10 x 7
