Flak-Artillerie, (Hardcover)

<p><b>Based on first-hand accounts, original documentation and unpublished images, this is a highly illustrated history of the Flak-Artillerie in World War II.</b> </p><p>Until the late 19th century wars were fought on land or at sea, but the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 saw the first use of hot-air balloons and aerial warfare was born. The Prussian Army sought a way to counter this development, and introduced the Krupp-built 3.7cm <i>Ballon-Abwehrkanone</i> - the first anti-aircraft weapon, and the source of all future German <i>Flak-Artillerie</i>. </p><p>In this new study, German armour expert Thomas Anderson traces the story of German anti-aircraft artillery through the rapid advances of World War I, though the interwar years to the rise of Nazism, German rearmament and World War II. Drawing on after-action reports, original wartime documents and rare and previously unseen photographs, he traces the development of increasingly sophisticated self-propelled anti-aircraft weapons through to the fully armoured Flakpanzer culminating in the <i>Kugelblitz</i>, the Flakpanzer 341 built on the PzKpfw V Panther chassis.</p>

• Flak-Artillerie, (Hardcover)
• Author: Thomas Anderson
• ISBN: 9781472865557
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-12-01
• Page Count: 288