Series: Vanguard

Book 8

United States First Marine Division, 1941-45

by Philip Katcher and Mike Chappell

Published 12 February 1979

Book 13

British Tanks in North Africa, 1940-42

German Armoured Cars and Reconnaissance Half Tracks, 1939-45

Flexibility, mobility, and the ability to effectively communicate were all key requirements that the units operating armoured cars and reconnaissance half-tracks demanded - and that were also crucial to the Panzerwaffe and German Army as a whole. Bryan Perrett's treatment of the development and history of German armoured cars and recce vehicles fully accounts for the crucial role that such units, and more importantly their vehicles, played during the course of World War II. Full orders of battle are also given, along with technical details and specifications of the vehicles assigned to particular units.

Book 38

Mechanized Infantry

by Bryan Perrett

Published 15 June 1984

Sturmartillerie & Panzerjager 1939-45

by Bryan Perrett

Published 25 October 1979

Originally the German assault gun was designed as an infantry support weapon, but the changing conditions of the battlefields of the Second World War forced it to adapt to perform a number of different roles, most importantly as a tank destroyer, although the infantry support role was never wholly discarded. If the much-glamorised Panzer divisions were the sword of the German army then the assault gun and tank destroyer units were its shield. As the Panzers' grip on the battlefield began to fail, though, it was left to the assault gun and tank destroyer crews to take up the burden.