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"The Last Behemoth of the Empire: The Complete Collection of German E-Series Tanks in World War II" takes the "E-Series", the "next-generation tank family" planned by Nazi Germany at the end of World War II, as the core content. It analyzes in detail from the aspects of politics, economy, battle situation, technology and even characters, all-round and multi-level analysis of the Nazis' delusion at the juncture of imminent destruction, what kind of "futuristic picture" they tried to use to reverse the war situation, as well as the origin, technical characteristics, achievements and final destruction of this delusion - the E-series.

Generally speaking, the series of advanced weapons projects launched by the Germans in 1944 are collectively called doomsday technology by later generations, and the part about air force equipment is called the Nazi Air Force Doomsday Plan. But whether it is doomsday plans or doomsday technology, they are only an integral part of the Nazi's dream of a thousand-year empire, so some projects were planned earlier and were anticipated for a longer period of time than people imagined. On the other hand, in order to achieve the goal of this thousand-year empire, we must first save the precarious war situation. Therefore, in people's minds, the entire doomsday plan inevitably has an epic and rich salvation color. In fact, this "doomsday" is likely to have a double meaning: one is to bring doomsday to the enemy; the other is to rescue oneself from doomsday. Looking back at this period of history now, perhaps we can discover what the doomsday plan actually means. This book will select the secret air force equipment in the doomsday plan and grandly present representative research and development objects such as rocket anti-aircraft interceptors, surface-to-air missiles, VTOL vertical take-off and landing fighters, jet fighters, intercontinental heavy bombers, ground attack aircraft, medium bombers, suborbital bombers and intercontinental missiles, and black sun flying saucers. It includes the research and development background, design concepts and detailed plans of the equipment, etc., Showing the ultimate imagination of the Nazis in aviation technology research and development before their collapse.