Russian Armored Trains of the World War II

Armored Trains of the Great Patriotic War


"We are peaceful people, but our train was standing on the siding ..." - This song, which before the war, singing the whole Soviet nation, was prophetic: it was the Great Patriotic War was destined to become the last great war of the armored train - in 1941-1945. actively in hostilities, more than 200 "steel fortresses" of the Red Army. And while many theorists believe this kind of troops are hopelessly outdated, Soviet armored train has a proven high level of combat effectiveness, especially in the first period of the war, when their construction has taken a truly massive scale - and in quantity and quality of Soviet armored trains surpassed all other Participants of the Second World put together!
However, until now, the topic is not actually covered in world literature. This book - the first one. Collecting material for her more than 20 years, processed and analyzed an enormous volume of information, tracing the path of all combat "land battleships" of the Red Army, a leading historian of armored vehicles has created not just the best, and only to date encyclopedia of armored trains of the Great Patriotic War.

Russian Armored Trains in Combat 1941-1945


The new book's leading historian of armored vehicles. Continuation of the bestseller "Armored Train World." Unlike the first volume, where the focus was primarily on the material part and the organization of units bepo (the abbreviation has taken root not only in the vernacular, but also in official documents), this edition dedicated entirely to combat use of armored trains on all fronts of the Great Patriotic War - from the Baltics to the Volga and the Caucasus. As a global leader in the production of "land battleships", the USSR was able to throw in more than 200 bepo. The Soviet-German front, where fighting was a huge territory in underdeveloped road network, namely railway communications played a crucial role, and the struggle for control over them, primarily over the junctions, has been particularly fierce. Throughout the war the Red Army armored fighting the most dangerous and endangered areas - cemented their defense on the directions of the main thrusts of the enemy, they were cast for the elimination of the German breakthrough, their crews suffered heavy losses, but the reports often read like a log of the legendary "Varyag": "At 14.00 bomb was broken steam distributor locomotive broneopezd maneuver but could not. At 14.30 on the first broneploschadke of thermite shell exploded and a fire broneploschadka completely out of order. At 15.00 a direct hit missile killed the entire crew thirds broneploschadki from falling into other shells exploded, and fire. At 16.30 three hits thermite shells struck in three places second broneploshadku, broke an instrument, a fire broke out, broneploschadka exploded. At the same time, fragments of bombs were defeated all anti-aircraft guns DShK. At 17.00 bombs broken locomotive (bent to one side), the ferry burned Brigade Engineers and commander of an armored train captain of Fundy, which, through the pain, without armored command fire from surviving broneploschadki ... "

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