Product Description

Nuts and Bolts, a photobook series that thoroughly explains a single vehicle based on interviews with experts and researchers, presents its 51st volume, focusing on the 8.8cm Flak anti-aircraft gun, one of the representative weapons used by the German army in World War II.
Loved by allies and feared by the enemy, this is arguably the most famous artillery piece and a highly popular item among WWII German military weapons. This is the long-awaited instruction manual for it.
This book is Part 1 (Volume 1) of a series that deals with this topic.
This document describes the Flak 18, Flak 36, and Flak 37 models, both towed and fixed, covering their operational period from the 1930s to the end of World War II in May 1945.
This 304-page book includes 315 battlefield photographs from the time, including original color photographs, 170 existing photographs of the cannon's details housed in museums around the world, and 129 illustrations from original manuals and black-and-white and color illustrations by Laurent Lecoq, providing a detailed explanation of this famous artillery piece.
This book is a must-have not only for modelers who build 1/35 kits from Tamiya, Dragon, AFV Club, Border Model, Trumpeter, etc., and for German military weapons researchers, but also for anyone interested in the 8.8cm anti-aircraft gun.

- A4 soft cover
- Materials included: 485 photographs (315 battlefield photographs from the time, 170 photographs of surviving artillery pieces), 129 illustrations
- Text: German/English bilingual
- Number of pages: 304 pages

• *Please note that the book's paper strip may not be included. Additionally, we do not offer replacements for any damage or wear to the strip.

Product Specifications

Item code

Nuts&Bolt51

ISBN code

4582783090554

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