Filippo Cappellano, Pier Paolo Battistelli

Italian Armoured & Reconnaissance Cars 1911-45 (eBook, PDF)

Illustrator: Morshead, Henry

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The first Italian armoured cars were used in the war in Libya in 1911-12 against the Ottoman Empire. With few tanks being developed, the Italians relied instead on the development of more mobile armoured cars like the Ansaldo Lancia 1 Z, during World War I, but post-war the army, focusing on the Alpine battlegrounds of Italy's northern borders, did not consider armoured cars suitable for reconnaissance duties.

The experience of the Spanish Civil War would provide the much needed last push for the Italians to develop modern armoured cars. The result were the famous AB 41-43 models, which fought against the British in North Africa and Marshall Tito's forces in Yugoslavia, along with other vehicles such as the AS 36 light armoured car.

Using detailed colour plates and contemporary photographs, this book examines the development of the Italian armoured car in the two world wars and the inter-war years, from the deserts of North Africa to the slopes of the Alps.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472824356
• Artikelnr.: 54008175

Autorenporträt

Colonel Dr Filippo Cappellano is the chief of the Italian Army Historical Branch (Ufficio Storico SME). A renowned military historian, he is the author of several books, essays and articles on the history of the Italian Army and particularly in the field of 20th century weapons, organization and tactics. He has collaborated with the leading Italian defence industries and universities, and for Osprey he has written Italian Light Tanks 1919-45 and Italian Medium Tanks 1939-45.

Inhaltsangabe

Early armoured cars, 1911?35
Interwar design and development: the Fiat 611 and the AB 40
The AB 41?43 armoured cars
AB 41?43 development: the Sahariana
Reconnaissance and armoured personnel carriers
Field conversions and captured vehicles
Field conversions and captured vehicles
Bibliography
Index