Przemyslaw Budzbon

Soviet Motor Gunboats of World War II (eBook, PDF)

The Red Army's 'river tanks' from Stalingrad to Berlin
Illustrator: Góralski, Waldemar; Forkasiewicz, Piotr

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A compelling account of the heavily armed and highly mobile Soviet river gunboats which took on the Germans during World War II.

Russia's enormous river system has long been its highway and, as early as 1908, the Tsar's armies were developing armoured riverboats that brought tank-like mobility, firepower and survivability to Russian battlefields.

This book, the first history of these vessels in English, explains how this concept led to one of the most remarkable naval weapons of World War II, the Soviet 'river tank', or Armoured Motor Gun Boat (AMGB). Highly mobile, capable of carrying up to 20 infantrymen directly into action and providing immediate firepower from their tank turrets, machine guns or Katyusha rockets, their military value was widely recognized. They were versatile enough to be used in naval landing operations off the Gulf of Finland, the Azov Sea and the Black Sea, and their capabilities were prized by local commanders.

Using meticulously researched new colour profiles, rare photos and spectacular artwork, this book uncovers the history of river warfare on the Eastern Front, and the boats that played such a key part in the fighting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472857224
• Artikelnr.: 68446350

Autorenporträt

Przemyslaw Budzbon is a naval architect who worked on warship construction for the Soviet Navy in the 1980s. He has written widely on the history of the Polish and Soviet navies of WW2 for Warship Quarterly and other European naval magazines. He contributed to Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships series and his book Soviet Navy at War 1941-45 was published in 1989. Since 2019 he has resumed his writing for Warship and has recently published two books on Polish shipyards from the post-1990 era.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
The river gunboat in Imperial Russia
DEVELOPMENT
Planning
Project 1124
Organization
Project 1125
RIVER TANKS AT WAR
Shoulder to shoulder with Nazi Germany, 1939-41
The German invasion of 1941
The German advance, 1942
Turning point, 1943
The Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe, 1944-45
The Amur Flotilla, 1945
AFTERMATH
River gunboats in The Cold War
Projects of the 190 series
Project 1204
End of an era
CONCLUSION
FURTHER READING
INDEX