German Assault Guns on the Eastern Front [Paperback]

Assault guns were armored fighting vehicles similar to tanks, with the chassis and tracks of a panzer but without the rotating turret and with a larger gun.?Used to support infantry assaults, they were also effective as tank destroyers. Hans Wijers has assembled hundreds of photos of these vehicles at war on the Eastern Front of World War II.Assault guns (Sturmgesch?tz in German) were armored fighting vehicles similar to tanks, with the chassis and tracks of a panzer but without the rotating turret, which allowed the mounting of a larger gun.?They were usually used to support infantry assaults, but they also proved effective as tank destroyers, especially late in the war when German tank inventory diminished.?Among the most famous variants are the Sturmtiger and Brummb?r (Grouch).?Hans Wijers has assembled hundreds of photosmost of them never seen anywhere beforeof these vehicles at war on the Eastern Front of World War II.Hans Wijers is the author of Eastern Front Combat, Winter Storm, and Battle of the Bulge (3 vols.), all published by Stackpole Books.?He lives in The Netherlands.