The floating tanks of the Red Army. Miracle-armed Stalin

For the first time under one cover T-33, T-41, T-37, T-38, T-40, PT-1, PT-1A, BAD-2, PB-4, PB-7!
In the early 1930s. The Vickers-Armstrong company has created a successful armored Amphibia Vickers Carden-Lloyd, but since it was not interested in the British military, the car was actively delivered to China, Siam, Holland and the USSR, where Stalin personally made the initiative to acquire its acquisition. . Soviet designers took this project as a basis for their own amphibians. The scandalously known Viktor Suvorov (Rezun) declared floating tanks with a kind of “miracle-armed”, the very fact of their adoption of Stalin’s intention to win Europe: “In a defensive war, the tank does not need to swim anywhere, therefore, when Hitler began the operation of Barbarossa, Soviet Swimming tanks had to be quit due to unsuitability in a defensive war, and their production was stopped immediately ... "
The new book of the leading historian of armored vehicles refutes these replicated myths, for the first time restoring the true history of the development, serial production and combat use of the entire line of floating tanks and armored vehicles of the Great Patriotic War, as well as their modifications. Produced by large series (in total more than 3,500 pcs), They participated in all pre -war conflicts of the USSR, and in the Great Patriotic War, intended not at all for "invasion of Europe", but for intelligence, sentinel and combat security. The last case of combat use of floating tanks was recorded in 1944. The amphibian trophy tanks were eagerly used not only by the Nazis, but also by Hungarians, Romanians, in the Finnish army they served until the early 1960s.
The publication is illustrated by unique drawings and photographs