T-34/76 Medium Tank, 1941-45

Informationen zum Autor Steven J. Zaloga is a senior analyst for Teal Group Corp., an aerospace consulting firm, where he covers missile and drone technology as well as international arms transfers for clients in the aerospace industry and the government. He served for more than two decades as an adjunct staff member with the Strategy, Forces, and Resources division of the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think-tank, retiring in 2021. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and history, including NVG 294 Allied Tanks in Normandy 1944 and NVG 283 American Guided Missiles of World War II . He currently lives in Maryland, USA. Klappentext The T-34 was the most influential tank design of World War 2. When first introduced into combat in the summer of 1941, it represented a revolutionary leap forward in tank design. Its firepower, armour protection and mobility were superior to that of any other medium tank of the period. This superiority did not last long. While the T-34 underwent a series of incremental improvements during 1943, it was being surpassed by new German tank designs, most notably the Panther. This title traces the life of the original T-34 through all its difficulties to eventual success. Zusammenfassung This concise history of the T-34/76 tank, one of the most successful fighting vehicles of the Second World War, describes its development and combat history on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945, and includes contemporary photographs and detailed colour plates and cut-aways. Inhaltsverzeichnis Design and Development · Operational History · The German reaction - the Panther · The Battle of the Factories · Universal Tank · Inside the T-34 · Variants

Product details

• Authors: Steven Saloga, Steven Zaloga, Steven J Zaloga, Steven J. Zaloga, Zaloga Steven J.
• Assisted by: Peter Sarson (Illustration), Sarson Peter (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.07.1994
• EAN: 9781855323827
• ISBN: 978-1-85532-382-7
• No. of pages: 48
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 247 mm x 5 mm
• Series: New vanguard series; New Vanguard; Osprey New Vanguard S.; New Vanguard; New vanguard series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; History, HISTORY / Military / Weapons, Military vehicles, Warfare & defence, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Land forces and warfare, HISTORY / Military / Vehicles / Land, HISTORY / Military / Land Forces