{"product_id":"the-kaisers-panzers-david-mitchelhill-green-9781805001799","title":"The Kaiser's Panzers: German Tanks of the First World War","description":"The Kaiser's Panzers charts the development of German armoured vehicles during the First World War. Late to adopt the tank as an offensive weapon, in a theatre characterized by bloody trench warfare, the Imperial German Army's fledgling tank force fielded only twenty A7V tanks by the time of the November 1918 Armistice. To address this shortcoming, the German Army pressed more captured British Mark IV tanks into service through a dedicated workshop facility in Belgium during the final year of the war. A handful of these vehicles later saw service in the Freikorps to suppress left-wing uprisings in Berlin and Leipzig.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough German tanks played an insignificant part in the conflict, two early commanders rose to prominence in the Third Reich: Ernest Volckheim a leading interwar armour theorist and later Panzer commander; Josef 'Sepp' Dietrich a SS Panzer general implicated in the 1945 Malmedy massacre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on contemporary records, newsreels and newspaper accounts, The Kaiser's Panzers is a heavily illustrated record of Germany's first tanks, the predecessor force to Adolf Hitler's vaunted Panzertruppen, and will be enjoyed by all military history enthusiasts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Mitchelhill-Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1805001795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781805001799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Greenhill Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"David Mitchelhill-Green","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46974648615167,"sku":"9781805001799","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fd5fd667-1aa7-4caf-9578-2aa1a2b726ab.jpg?v=1750875650","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-kaisers-panzers-david-mitchelhill-green-9781805001799","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}