Download or read book German Panzers in WW II written by Chris Bishop and published by History PressLtd. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated and essential reference guide organized by campaigns within each theatre.
Download or read book Panzers at War written by Michael Green Gladys Green and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Panzers at War written by Gladys Green and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panzers at War takes us around and inside the tanks of the German military during World War II, ranging from the two-man 6-ton Panzer I light tank, armed only with machine guns, to the five-man 70-ton Tiger B tank armed with the powerful 88mm main gun that inspired fear among all its opponents. The At War series features accessibly-written books on military equipment and elite military units, including exciting first person accounts and descriptions of combat and equipment through the eyes soldiers and other military personnel.
Download or read book Hitler s Panzers East written by R.H.S. Stolfi and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How close did Germany come to winning World War II? Did Hitler throw away victory in Europe after his troops had crushed the Soviet field armies defending Moscow by August 1941? R.H.S. Stolfi offers a dramatic new picture of Hitler’s conduct in World War II and a fundamental reinterpretation of the course of the war. Adolf Hitler generally is thought to have been driven by a blitzkrieg mentality in the years 1939 to 1941. In fact, Stolfi argues, he had no such outlook on the war. From the day Britain and France declared war, Hitler reacted with a profoundly conservative cast of mind and pursued a circumscribed strategy, pushing out siege lines set around Germany by the Allies. Interpreting Hitler as a siege Führer explain his apparent aberrations in connection with Dunkirk, his fixation on the seizure of Leningrad, and his fateful decision in the summer of 1941 to deflect Army Group Center into the Ukraine when both Moscow and victory in World War II were within its reach. Unaware of Hitler’s siege orientation, the German Army planned blitz campaigns. Through daring operational concepts and bold tactics, the army won victories over several Allied powers in World War II, and these led to the great campaign against the Soviet Union in summer of 1941. Stolfi postulates that in August 1941, German Army Group Center had the strength both to destroy the Red field armies defending the Soviet capital and to advance to Moscow and beyond. The defeat of the Soviet Union would have assured victory in World War II. Nevertheless, Hitler ordered the army group south to secure the resources of the Ukraine against a potential siege. And a virtually assured German victory slipped away. This radical reinterpretation of Hitler and the capabilities of the German Army leads to a reevaluation of World War II, in which the lesson to be learned is not how the Allies won the war, but how close the Germans came to a quick and decisive victory?long before the United States was drawn into the battle.
Download or read book Stopping the Panzers written by Marc Milner and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the narrative of D-Day the Canadians figure chiefly—if at all—as an ineffective force bungling their part in the early phase of Operation Overlord. The reality is quite another story. As both the Allies and the Germans knew, only Germany’s Panzers could crush Overlord in its tracks. The Canadians’ job was to stop the Panzers—which, as this book finally makes clear, is precisely what they did. Rescuing from obscurity one of the least understood and most important chapters in the history of D-Day, Stopping the Panzers is the first full account of how the Allies planned for and met the Panzer threat to Operation Overlord. As such, this book marks nothing less than a paradigm shift in our understanding of the Normandy campaign. Beginning with the Allied planning for Operation Overlord in 1943, historian Marc Milner tracks changing and expanding assessments of the Panzer threat, and the preparations of the men and units tasked with handling that threat. Featured in this was the 3rd Canadian Division, which, treated so dismissively by history, was actually the most powerful Allied formation to land on D-Day, with a full armored brigade and nearly 300 artillery and antitank guns under command. Milner describes how, over four days of intense and often brutal battle, the Canadians fought to a literal standstill the 1st SS Panzer Corps—which included the Wehrmacht’s 21st Panzer Division; its vaunted elite Panzer Lehr Division; and the rabidly zealous 12th SS Hitler Youth Panzer Division, whose murder of 157 Canadian POWs accounted for nearly a quarter of Canadian fatalities during the fighting. Stopping the Panzers sets this murderous battle within the wider context of the Overlord assault, offering a perspective that challenges the conventional wisdom about Allied and German combat efficiency, and leads to one of the freshest assessments of the D-Day landings and their pre-attack planning in more than a decade.
Download or read book Knight s Cross Panzers written by Hans Schäufler and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First time in English. Unit history of a tank regiment on the Eastern Front. Relies on firsthand accounts, after-action reports, letters, diaries, and newspapers.
Download or read book Panzers in Berlin 1945 written by Lee Archer and published by In Focus. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 392-page book is lavishly illustrated with 360 mostly unpublished photographs that take the reader from the retreat at Seelow to collecting wrecks from central Berlin. Years of painstaking research and a network of like-minded researchers from across the globe have enabled the authors to piece together the who, where and why, including lists o
Download or read book Hitler s Tanks written by Chris McNab and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Panzers that rolled over Europe were Germany's most famous fighting force, and are some of the most enduring symbols of World War II. However, at the start of the war, Germany's tanks were nothing extraordinary and it was operational encounters such as facing the Soviet T-34 during Operation Barbarossa which prompted their intensive development. Tactical innovation gave them an edge where technological development had not, making Hitler's tanks a formidable enemy. Hitler's Tanks details the development and operational history of the light Panzer I and II, developed in the 1930s, the medium tanks that were the backbone of the Panzer Divisions, the Tiger, and the formidable King Tiger, the heaviest tank to see combat in World War II. Drawing on Osprey's unique and extensive armour archive, Chris McNab skilfully weaves together the story of the fearsome tanks that transformed armoured warfare and revolutionised land warfare forever.
Download or read book Repairing the Panzers written by Lukas Friedli and published by Panzerwrecks. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book German Tanks at War written by Bob Carruthers and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2000 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of photos of German tanks in battle action, many in color, most never before seen in print, show how the Nazis breached the Maginot Line, marched across Eastern Europe and Russia, and forced the Allies back to Dunkirk. Full coverage of every major tank battle and campaign in the First and Second World Wars, unfolds the strategy, tactics and technical details of every attack, including how the likes of Rommel and Guderian met defeat. Hundreds of photos of German tanks in battle action, many in color, most never before seen in print, show how the Nazis breached the Maginot Line, marched across Eastern Europe and Russia, and forced the Allies back to Dunkirk. Full coverage of every major tank battle and campaign in the First and Second World Wars, unfolds the strategy, tactics and technical details of every attack, including how the likes of Rommel and Guderian met defeat.
Download or read book Panzers at War 1943 1945 written by and published by Coda Books Ltd. This book was released on with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Ride of the Panzers written by Dennis Oliver and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Ride of the Panzers is a unique guide to the Nazi tanks, vehicles, and crews of World War II. It features never-before-seen photographs from the US National Archives and the author's personal collection, annotated artist renderings, and detailed explanations and historical context for each collection of images. Readers will also be able to trace the combat histories of these subjects through orders of battle, maps and organizational diagrams, vehicle allocation charts, and unit biographies. The forensic approach for which Dennis Oliver is known creates a broad, comprehensive record of German soldiers and hardware from early 1944 to the end of the conflict in 1945. Death Ride of the Panzers provides the context and chronology necessary for the general reader and the primary sources and hardware specifics that appeal to the expert, making this book perfect for the readers with historical interest, modelers, and WWII buffs alike.
Download or read book Panzers at War 1939 1942 written by and published by Coda Books Ltd. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Armored Bears Volume Two written by Veterans of the 3rd Panzer Division and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First major treatment of the 3rd Panzer Division in EnglishCovers the division's battle on the Eastern Front from 1943 through the end of the warThe division had nearly 50 Knight's Cross winners by the end of the warNumerous photos of soldiers and their tanksBased on the daily logs of the division and recollections of its commanders and soldiers
Download or read book The Panzer Killers written by Daniel P. Bolger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A general-turned-historian reveals the remarkable battlefield heroics of Major General Maurice Rose, the World War II tank commander whose 3rd Armored Division struck fear into the hearts of Hitler's panzer crews. “The Panzer Killers is a great book, vividly written and shrewdly observed.”—The Wall Street Journal Two months after D-Day, the Allies found themselves in a stalemate in Normandy, having suffered enormous casualties attempting to push through hedgerow country. Troops were spent, and American tankers, lacking the tactics and leadership to deal with the terrain, were losing their spirit. General George Patton and the other top U.S. commanders needed an officer who knew how to break the impasse and roll over the Germans—they needed one man with the grit and the vision to take the war all the way to the Rhine. Patton and his peers selected Maurice Rose. The son of a rabbi, Rose never discussed his Jewish heritage. But his ferocity on the battlefield reflected an inner flame. He led his 3rd Armored Division not from a command post but from the first vehicle in formation, charging headfirst into a fight. He devised innovative tactics, made the most of American weapons, and personally chose the cadre of young officers who drove his division forward. From Normandy to the West Wall, from the Battle of the Bulge to the final charge across Germany, Maurice Rose's deadly division of tanks blasted through enemy lines and pursued the enemy with a remarkable intensity. In The Panzer Killers, Daniel P. Bolger, a retired lieutenant general and Iraq War veteran, offers up a lively, dramatic tale of Rose's heroism. Along the way, Bolger infuses the narrative with fascinating insights that could only come from an author who has commanded tank forces in combat. The result is a unique and masterful story of battlefield leadership, destined to become a classic.
Download or read book Panzers written by Tom Zola and published by Ek-2 Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle for Kursk is won, but only days later the Red Army launches several massive counter-offensives. While the Allies are preparing to land in Sicily, where a wounded Franz Berning recovers in a hospital, Field Marshal von Manstein, commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern front, takes a daring decision: to counter-attack with two Panzer units in the middle of the Soviet operation to reconquer the industrial metropolis of Tula, considered the last bastion on the way back to Moscow. Lieutenant Josef Engelmann's regiment joins the Tula operation and shortly afterwards faces fierce tank battles. Meanwhile in the Pacific, the world war rages with extreme severity when US Marine Raiders invade New Georgia in the Solomon Islands archipelago. Private First Class Tom Roebuck is thrown into the brutal battles fought between American and Japanese troops. When he takes a Japanese entrenchment, Roebuck finds a most alarming photograph ... Global Conflict is the second entry in the German military fiction series Panzers: Push for Victory Book 1: Panzers: Push for Victory - Battle of Kursk Book 2: Panzers: Push for Victory - Global Conflict Book 3: Panzers: Push for Victory - D-Day - They are coming!
Download or read book Tiger Tanks at War written by Michael Green and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first prototype for the Tiger tank was set to be ready for Hitlers birthday on April 20, 1942. The Henschel Company, competing with Porsche, produced the superior model, and by August of that year the formidable Tiger--or Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf. H.--was in full production. This book takes us behind the scenes with the Tiger tank, reviewing the full history, the design and mechanics, and the mixed record of this machine, which was designed to outgun its Russian counterparts. Military writer Michael Green offers a close-up account--accompanied by photographs, diagrams, and maps--of how the Tiger tank operated, how it was armed, and where it succeeded brilliantly, as well as where it failed miserably. His book fills a fascinating niche in the history of military technology, and of the impact of technology on history itself.
