二战武器百科全书 Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II PDF版本

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资源信息： 中文名: 二战武器百科全书 原名: Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II 版本: PDF版本 发行时间: 1998年 地区: 英国 概述:

Introduction World War II affected virtually every corner of the globe. In the six years between 1939 Y Y and 1945, some 50 million people lost their lives, and very few who survived were not affected. It was the costliest and most widespread conflict the world has ever seen. World War II was fought on land, sea and in the air with weapons which had first been used in the Great War of 1914-18. Ironically, an even greater conflict was to emerge from the burning embers of that "war to end all wars", and with it huge advances in weapons technology. The countries involved in World War II now had the means and the capability to fight each other in a more efficient - and more deadly - manner. Yet only Great Britain, her Empire allies and Germany were involved during the whole period. For other nations the conflict was of a shorter duration. The USA and Japan, for example, were at war from December 1941 to August 1945 (and the USA was simultaneously at war with Germany, until Hitler's defeat in May 1945). The situation was so complicated, the skeins of alliance and enmity so intertwined that it would take a very large chart indeed to describe them. Only one factor was more straightforward and common to all the countries involved: the nature of the weapons that the men (and sometimes women) used to fight their way to victory - or defeat. There were differences in detail, of course: the German Panzerkampfwagen V 'Panther' tank was a very different vehicle from the American M4 Sherman, the Russian T-34, or the British Cromwell. But essentially they were all much the same - armoured vehicles mounting powerful guns running on tracks.The small arms with which the various combatant nations equipped their armies were very different in detail too, but essentially they were all devices for launching projectiles at high speed. In short, many would simply say that guns are guns, bombs are bombs, aircraft are aircraft, and so on. But there is certainly more to it than that, for the capacity to win or lose a war actually rested on these weapons' qualities, just as much as it did on the fighting skills of those who employed them and on the strategic sense of those who directed them in their use. We cannot simply bundle these weapons together - not if we really want to understand why and how 20th century history unfolded the way it did. The Complete Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II makes a very important contribution to the subject - perhaps even a vital one - for it describes every major weapon and vehicle employed during the full period of the conflict, on land, sea and in the air, in enormous detail, both in textual and in graphic form. It also provides detailed specifications about the 'core' weapon or system and all its major variants. Thus it allows straightforward comparisons to be made accurately and effectively. Its sheer comprehensiveness makes The Complete Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II compelling reading. Clearly it will have considerable appeal to all manner of students of the period as the first - and probably the definitive - source of clear, concise information on the nature and history of different weapons, including specifications, capabilities and capacities, varying forms, the colour schemes in which they appeared and the manner in which they were employed. The text and tables have been prepared by some of the foremost experts in the field, and this same team provided and approved specifications, plans and drawings and photographic reference material to assist the best graphic artists available to produce illustrations, the like of which, in terms of quality, precision and accuracy, are seldom seen outside offical circles. The Complete Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II covers the terrestrial equipment of all arms of service, from the infantryman's handgun, rifles and machine-guns, to the support weapons he used to take on tanks and subdue fortified defensive positions; from light armoured cars used for reconnaissance to heavy assault tanks and special-purpose armoured vehicles; from towed anti-tank guns to tank destroyers and from lightweight field artillery pieces to self-propelled guns and howitzers, not forgetting wheeled and tracked utility vehicles. The war was also conducted at sea, and World War II saw warships of every calibre employed all over the globe, from the 70,000-tonne monster battleships to the diminutive motor gun-boats and motor torpedo- boats, and the best of these are described in detail. Pride of place, however, goes to the new breed of capital ships - the aircraft carriers, which were born in the inter-war period and which achieved maturity just as hostilities broke out. Alongside them space is also given to another new naval weapon: the submarine. Here, too, are described the last of the old generation of capital ships - for which World War II was to be their swansong.The battleships of both sides were to become household names all over the world between 1939 and 1945, and here they are described and illustrated in full colour and in tremendous detail. Cruisers, destroyers and escorts, coastal craft and assault ships also played vitally important parts, and they, too, are described, illustrated and documented here. New weapons appeared throughout the war, but it was in the air that the real changes were rung. Until quite late in the 1930s, the world's air forces were equipped with biplanes with relatively low-powered engines, thus limiting their performance, endurance and load-carrying capacity. Germany, risen from the ashes of defeat in 1918 and plagued throughout the next decade by internal strife and near-revolution, was the first to recognize the potential for a new generation of all-metal aircraft, and soon produced such masterpieces as the Bf 109 interceptor/fighter, and the Dornier, Heinkel and Junkers medium bombers. Britain followed suit, and began turning out longrange heavy bomber aircraft, such as the Lancaster, widely held to be the best of its type, while the USA - slow to get going initially - built up an aircraft industry second to none, which came to dominate the field by the end of the war, producing magnificent aircraft, such as the Mustangs and Thunderbolts, which doubled as both fighters and ground attack aircraft, and the redoubtable B-7 and B-29 Fortresses. The former USSR's powerful aviation industry also had its roots in World War II, and its products, as well as those of Japan, are also covered in great detail. In all, The Complete Encyclopedia ofWeapons of World War II is a unique and essential document, covering the equipment and weapons systems, which themselves dictated the nature of the most widespread, most expensive and most destructive conflict the world has ever seen. World War II quite literally altered the face of the planet and the nature of its peoples' lives, and its reverberations are still to be felt half a century later. Here, at least and at last, we have the means to understand how technological advances and fantastic leaps of imagination of this vitally important period manifested themselves in the tools with which the war was won - and lost. Contents Introduction........................................................7 Axis Tanks...........................................................9 British and French Tanks.....................................20 Soviet and American Tanks.................................31 Tank Destroyers..................................................42 Special Purpose Tanks........................................52 Amphibious Vehicles............................................63 Allied and Axis Halftracks.....................................73 Armoured Cars.....................................................83 Allied and Axis Trucks...........................................93 Light Vehicles.......................................................101 Self-Propelled Guns..............................................111 Heavy Artillery......................................................123 Field Artillery.........................................................136 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Guns.......................................148 Light Anti-Aircraft Guns.........................................159 War Rockets.........................................................169 Anti-Tank Guns.....................................................179 Infantry Support Weapons...................................191 Infantry Anti-Tank Weapons.................................203 Allied and Axis Rifles..............................................215 Allied and Axis Pistols............................................255 Allied and Axis Machine-Guns.................................236 Allied and Axis Sub-Machine Guns..........................249 Allied and Axis Flamethrowers................................264 Allied Fighters.........................................................275 Axis Fighters...........................................................283 Heavy Bombers.......................................................293 Light and Medium Bombers.....................................305 Jet Aircraft...............................................................318 Axis Ground Attack Aircraft......................................330 Allied Ground Attack Aircraft....................................340 Night-Fighters.........................................................350 Allied and Axis Flying-Boats.....................................361 Allied and Axis Seaplanes........................................372 Anti-Shipping Aircraft...............................................383 Carrier Aircraft.........................................................393 Transport and Assault Aircraft.................................404 Air-to-Ground Weapons..........................................414 Light Aircraft............................................................424 Axis Submarines......................................................434 Allied Submarines....................................................443 British Aircraft Carriers............................................452 Japanese Aircraft Carriers.......................................462 American Aircraft Carriers........................................470 Allied and Axis Battleships.......................................478 Allied and Axis Cruisers............................................487 Axis Destroyers........................................................497 Escort Vessels..........................................................509 Coastal Craft............................................................519 Assault Ships............................................................529 Glossary of Weapons...............................................540 已通过安全测试 杀毒软件：卡巴斯基6.0 病毒库版本：2007.02.25 在线时间：不定，长期 常在服务器：DS1/2