The Kaiser's Panzers: German Tanks of The First World War [Paperback]

For anyone wanting a thoroughly good photographic history of German armour in the First World War, then one could not get better than this volume... The Kaiser's Panzers is highly recommended, and certainly worth its very reasonable price tag given the range and quality of the content.  Iron CrossThe Kaisers Panzers charts the development of German armoured vehicles during the First World War. Late to adopt the tank as an offensive weapon, in a theatre characterized by bloody trench warfare, the Imperial German Armys fledgling tank force fielded only twenty A7V tanks by the time of the November 1918 Armistice. To address this shortcoming, the German Army pressed more captured British Mark IV tanks into service through a dedicated workshop facility in Belgium during the final year of the war. A handful of these vehicles later saw service in the Freikorps to suppress left-wing uprisings in Berlin and Leipzig.Although German tanks played an insignificant part in the conflict, two early commanders rose to prominence in the Third Reich: Ernest Volckheim a leading interwar armour theorist and later Panzer commander; Josef Sepp Dietrich a SS Panzer general implicated in the 1945 Malmedy massacre.Drawing on contemporary records, newsreels and newspaper accounts, The Kaisers Panzers is a heavily illustrated record of Germanys first tanks, the predecessor force to Adolf Hitlers vaunted Panzertruppen, and will be enjoyed by all military history enthusiasts. For anyone wanting a thoroughly good photographic history of German armour in the First World War, then one could not get better than this volume... The Kaiser's Panzers is highly recommended, and certainly worth its very reasonable price tag given the range and quality of the content. &truly an impressive collection of photos.&a welcome addition and the abundance of excellent photos of these vehicles in and out of combat really adds to the appeal.If WWI tanks are your passion, this is a book you simply must hl3V