German Armoured Cars of WWII

Book Review

by Don Featherstone

GERMAN ARMOURED CARS OF WORLD WAR TWO by John Milsom and Peter Chamberlain. (10" x 7 1/2"; 128 pages; over 200 illustrations. Arms and Armour Press - £ 3.50.

Being not unfamiliar with the difficulties of obtaining photographs required to illustrate books, my mind boggles at the wonderful collection contained in this volume. If you are interested in wargaming World War II or indeed in armoured vehicles generally, then this would seem to be the definitive work on German armoured cars. It illustrates the history of that Country's wheeled armoured vehicles from the developments of the late 1920's, undertaken secretly to circumvent the Versailles Treaty, to the perfected vehicles of World War II. The photographs, the majority of which have never before been published, show several views of each vehicle and the text describes their technical characteristics, including armour, armament, engine, suspension, performance and dimensions. It includes four, six and eight-wheeled vehicles; all have been comprehensizely and carefully researched by two extremely well-known names in this field.

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