The majority of the photographs in this book have never been published before, probably overlooked because they have not caught any of the German ‘big cats’ in action. Nonetheless, they do contain an important visual record of one of the ‘workhorses’ of the German ground forces, the Sd Kfz 250. This vehicle, in all of its variations, played a vital and universal role for most of the war, and these photographs present it in context within several German armoured formations, both at rest and in action. Surrounded by the mundane, the rare and sometimes the unusual, the 250 is followed through the years, from factory fresh to battered veteran, set against the backdrop of Vichy France, Russia, Italy and Normandy.