{"product_id":"b0hgb7h4dm","title":"IS-2 Heavy Tank: Design, Production, Combat Service, Variants, Crew Experience \u0026 Modeling Reference (Armored Legends Field Guide)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome armored vehicles are remembered for a single weapon, a famous battle, or an intimidating silhouette. The IS-2 rewards a deeper look. Its story reveals how the Soviet Union transformed hard-earned wartime lessons into a heavy tank built for breakthrough operations, fortified positions, urban combat, and the final offensives into Central Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIS-2 Heavy Tank takes the reader inside one of the Red Army’s most distinctive late-war fighting vehicles, following its development from the problems of the KV series through design, production, combat service, crew experience, postwar modernization, and historical legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in the precise, accessible style of the  Armored Legends Field Guide  series, this volume connects technical features with the conditions that gave them meaning: factories, doctrine, ammunition supply, crew workload, maintenance, battlefield organization, and the realities faced by Guards heavy-tank regiments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInside, you will discover:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow the IS-2 was created , including the KV-13 and IS-1 lineage, Object 240, and the revealing Soviet debate between 100 mm and 122 mm armament.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow the tank actually functioned as a fighting system , from armor and ammunition handling to observation, communications, mobility, survivability, and field maintenance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow IS-2 units fought , with focused treatment of Soviet heavy-tank doctrine and campaigns from Ukraine and Sandomierz to East Prussia, Budapest, Poznań, Breslau, and Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow to recognize and understand its evolution , including production changes, early and late hull features, IS-2M modernization, surviving vehicles, markings, and useful details for modelers and enthusiasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, documented evidence is separated from battlefield claims and later mythology, revealing details that are often lost in simple comparisons of gun caliber and armor thickness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a  compact but information-rich military history  designed to leave the reader with a clearer understanding of how the IS-2 was designed, produced, crewed, supplied, fought, modified, and ultimately remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor tank enthusiasts, military-history readers, modelers, and anyone fascinated by Soviet armored warfare, this field guide offers the experience of seeing the IS-2 as more than a famous heavy tank—and understanding the wartime system that made it possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67934456512548,"sku":"YSL31834","price":3.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/2614\/7620\/files\/71Pgm6nW33L._SY1500.jpg?v=1793246546","url":"https:\/\/booktavero.com\/products\/b0hgb7h4dm","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}