Tanks of the interwar period. 1918-1939 Tanks, theory, combat use. Belash E.Yu.

The period between the first and Second World War allowed the military industrialized countries to form and test the concept of armored vehicles in practice, as well as create new tanks. This book, including on the basis of archival documents, for the first time in detail talks about the theory of the use of tanks in the UK, Germany, the USSR and the USA, the results of maneuvers and the development of new equipment in different countries, the combat use of tanks in large and “small wars”. The author gives answers to the most difficult questions: why did the defeated Germans, strictly restrained in the development of weapons, were able to rapidly create one of the most powerful armies of the world? Whom did the Wehrmacht officers consider their teachers? How many tanks did Tukhachevsky want, and which ones? Than the features of the wars of the 1920s-the first half of the 1930s. recall recent local conflicts?

From the last tank shots of the First World War and the fighting of the Civil War in Russia, the fields of training battles and the "Maly Wars" (the war of Chako between Bolivia and Paraguay, the fighting of the Hassan and the Halhin-Minor. Gole, where Soviet tankers met in a battle with the troops of imperial Japan, etc.), in which maneuverable and independent tank troops were created to the largest conflicts - the struggle of the armor in China and the Civil War in Spain, where Soviet, German and Italian tanks met in the first present Armored conflict in the history of wars, as well as the actions of the Red Army tanks in the Polish and Baltic campaigns, when the Second World War was already in Europe.

The publication is illustrated by unique photographs.