- Paperback: 48 pages
- Publisher: Osprey Publishing (25 Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1841761826
- ISBN-13: 978-1841761824
- Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 0.4 x 24.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 494,355 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As a result of the heavy losses in armoured vehicles, and tanks in particular, on the Eastern Front the assault gun units played an increasingly vital role in supporting the beleaguered infantry and countering Allied armour, The Stumgeschutz was one of the most numerously produced and effectively deployed of the German armoured vehicles. Total production of the Ausf G alone was close to 7000 vehicles; a further 1299 were equipped with the 10.5cm gun as self-propelled howitzers. This book reveals how the Sturmgeschutz provided the backbone of Germany's amoured forces in every theatre and on every front during the long fighting-retreat of the final years of the war.
About the Author
Peter Sarson has produced graphic cutaways for many armoured vehicle publications, and is regarded as one of the world's great illustrators of military vehicles. Hilary Louis Doyle, born 1943, is an expert on German armoured vehicles and has written numerous books on AFV's including the Encylopedia of German Tanks. Tom Jentz, bom in 1946, is one of the world's leading AFV researchers and is best known for the Encyclopaedia of German Tanks.
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The Sturmgeschutz with the short barrelled 7.5 cm Kanone L/24 was very successful in its intended combat role of supporting infantry by providing effective high explosive fire. Read the first page
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The Sturmgeschutz with the short barrelled 7.5 cm Kanone L/24 was very successful in its intended combat role of supporting infantry by providing effective high explosive fire. Read the first page
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
One for WW2 obsessives, and non the worse for that. The book covers the F and G versions in immense detail, the photos' are nearly all new (to me at any rate) and the text shows that it was written by a master of the subject. The Osprey books are a patchy lot to be honest (at least on WW2 anyway) but this is worth every penny. It's just too short!
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
This is exactly the sort of book osprey should be publishing. Too many of their books attempt to cover vast areas of military history in 40-odd pages and end up being little more than a summary. Some appear to be little more than cut & paste works from other sources.
This isn't.
Although its the same length as every other Osprey its so detail heavy you don't end up feeling cheated. It sensibly covers only the STUG variants with high velocity guns: basically the Stug III F & G with the long 75mm cannon and the very similar Stug IV plus the infantry support variant with the 105mm howitzer. The authors at the very start specifiy which sources they used & which they discounted. As such the book is both specific and accurate. As the first reviewer says its probably not intended for the general reader, but I personally find this a good thing.
There are good photo illustrations throughout and unlike many books you will not find these pictures via google images. Generally the pictures are front aspect and mostly taken in Germany so they don't give a total picture of what a real combat STUG looked like but there are a few photos taken on the eastern front and the colour plates are well drawn and highly detailed. Some internal photos would have been nice, although there's a Finnish stug cut open which gives an idea of crew layout.
The book would benefit from a slightly more detailed breakdown of units that used the vehicles and some descriptions of combat would have been good too. Its primarily written about the actual vehicle with less emphasis on who used it and how. Basically if you want lots of technical details about late war Stugs this book should be your first purchase.
This isn't.
Although its the same length as every other Osprey its so detail heavy you don't end up feeling cheated. It sensibly covers only the STUG variants with high velocity guns: basically the Stug III F & G with the long 75mm cannon and the very similar Stug IV plus the infantry support variant with the 105mm howitzer. The authors at the very start specifiy which sources they used & which they discounted. As such the book is both specific and accurate. As the first reviewer says its probably not intended for the general reader, but I personally find this a good thing.
There are good photo illustrations throughout and unlike many books you will not find these pictures via google images. Generally the pictures are front aspect and mostly taken in Germany so they don't give a total picture of what a real combat STUG looked like but there are a few photos taken on the eastern front and the colour plates are well drawn and highly detailed. Some internal photos would have been nice, although there's a Finnish stug cut open which gives an idea of crew layout.
The book would benefit from a slightly more detailed breakdown of units that used the vehicles and some descriptions of combat would have been good too. Its primarily written about the actual vehicle with less emphasis on who used it and how. Basically if you want lots of technical details about late war Stugs this book should be your first purchase.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Very slim, not a modeling resource
9 Sep 2005
This book is very slim, even by Ospey standards - 47 pages of large font type somehow slipped between lots of pictures and tabels. But the pictures are mostly small and don't show a lot of detail for modelers. The color plates are paintings of four side views, one 3-view, one 3/4 external, and one 3/4 cutaway of Stug IIIs, and one 3-view of the Stug IV (with schurzen - not helpful!) and a corner view of a Sturmhaubitze. There are some schematic drawings, but they are at 1/76th scale which is not very useful because it is both very small, and of a not commonly used scale for modeling (1/72 would be good, 1/35 would be better). There is only a single paragraph on Stug IVs total.
It is a decent overview of the vehicle, how it is used and its strengths and weaknesses. But it isn't really helpful for people making models or looking for more than just basic information.
It is a decent overview of the vehicle, how it is used and its strengths and weaknesses. But it isn't really helpful for people making models or looking for more than just basic information.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
German backbone defense machine in a mini publication format
4 Dec 2002
I am really impressed by the mini coverage of this assault gun given in this tiny book. The text is clear, many data are provide, all the pictures are described and support written information. The graphic cutaways and the drawing reinforce the well-balanced text/images conception of the New Vanguard series.
The real lack of all the Osprey book is the source. Nearly all the books edited by Osprey are lacking the bibliography and Index. Most of the books are from renowned historian with many years of background research, but they end-up with no source to validate their works.
I had to go with the more complete book Sturmgeschutz & Its Variants (Spielberger German Armor & Military Vehicles Series, Vol 2) from Schiffer publishing to ascertain the trueness of the facts imply in this Osprey book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
German backbone defense machine in a mini publication format
4 Dec 2002
I am really impressed by the mini coverage of this assault gun given in this tiny book. The text is clear, many data are provide, all the pictures are described and support written information. The graphic cutaways and the drawing reinforce the well-balanced text/images conception of the New Vanguard series.
The real lack of all the Osprey book is the source. Nearly all the books edited by Osprey are lacking the bibliography and Index. Most of the books are from renowned historian with many years of background research, but they end-up with no source to validate their works.
I had to go with the more complete book Sturmgeschutz & Its Variants (Spielberger German Armor & Military Vehicles Series, Vol 2) from Schiffer publishing to ascertain the trueness of the facts imply in this Osprey book.
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