Tanks in Poland 1939
Buying pre-order items
Ebooks and Audiobook
You will receive an email with a download link for the ebook or audiobook on the publication date.
Payment
You will not be charged for pre-ordered books until they are available to be shipped. Pre-ordered ebooks will not be charged for until they are available for download.
Amending or cancelling your order
For orders that have not been shipped you can usually make changes to pre-orders up to 72 hours before the publishing date.
Payment for this pre-order will be taken when the item becomes available
Description
Illustrated throughout and featuring new historical data, an expert study of the tanks that fought the Poland campaign in 1939, and their combat performance.
The opening campaign of World War II saw the first full-scale armored clashes between modern European armies. However, the clash was less one-sided than many believe.
In this book, world armor expert Steven J. Zaloga presents a fresh analysis of the tanks of the German and Polish armies during the 1939 invasion, drawing on and presenting combat data from untapped archival accounts. He explains how the technical disparity between the two sides was not as great as generally assumed, and the victory of the Panzers relied more on their three-to-one numerical superiority. Germany was still behind its goals in fielding its modern PzKpfw III and PzKpfw IV tanks and so depended on the weaker and more poorly armed PzKpfw I and PzKpw II tanks. Although the bulk of Polish tanks were the obsolete TK and TKS tankettes, Poland had about 200 of the modern 7TP light tank, armed with a powerful Swedish Bofors 37mm gun.
Packed with historical photos from little-known archives, and superb original profiles of the tanks involved, this is a concise study of the reality of tank warfare in the first shots of the war.
Accessibility Information
Additional accessibility information
- EPUB 3.0
- Conforms with the requirements of EPUB Accessibility Spec v1.1
- WCAG level AA
- WCAG v2.2 compliant
- [email protected]
Hazards
The publication contains no hazards
Support for non-visual reading
- No accessibility features offered by the reading system, device or reading software are disabled or otherwise unusable with the product
- Has alternative text descriptions for images
Visual adjustments
Appearance of the text and page layout can be modified according to the capabilities of the reading system (font family and size, spaces, as well as color of background and text)
Navigation
- Page list to go to pages from the print source version
- Elements such as headings, tables, etc for structured navigation
- All or substantially all textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order
- Content is enhanced with ARIA roles to optimize organization and facilitate navigation
- Purposes of all links are made clear
Rich content
Language tagging provided
Table of Contents
The Tanks, Doctrine and Organization
Technical Factors
The Campaign
Battle Analysis
Further Reading
Index
Product details
| Published | 17 Jun 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 48 |
| ISBN | 9781472875662 |
| Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
| Illustrations | Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8 pages of colour illustrations |
| Series | New Vanguard |
| Short code | NVG 358 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Resources
Book Vote
Tell us what titles you would like to see published by Osprey, then vote for your favourites in our monthly book vote!
Related Titles
