Download or read book The German 10th Panzer Division and the Battles of Poland and France written by Albert Schick and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written in German by Mr. Albert Schick, this unit history covers the history of an unusual Panzer Division of the German Army in WW II. It describes its establishment shortly before the Polish Campaign and its combat record through the Polish 1939 and French 1940 campaigns. A second volume will explore the division's subsequent campaigns in Russia and North Africa. This division participated in some of the most important battles of WW II including the crossing of the Meuse River at Sedan, the bloody battle at Stonne, and the capture of Calais. This first volume of the divisional history is a good mixture of command level descriptions of the movements and fighting, as well as personal small unit accounts.
Download or read book The 10 Panzer Division written by Jean Restayn and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This photo album presents the history of the division through a brief text, hundreds of photographs, several maps and numerous custom color illustrations. This book offers the first account in English of this battle-proven division, which was formed shortly before the outbreak of the war. It fought in Poland, France and in the opening stages of the campaign in Russia. In mid-1942, it was pulled out of the line, reconstituted and reorganized in France and then sent to North Africa as part of Hitler's desperate attempt to save the situation there. Although the division spent only six months in the desert, it fought both the British and the Americans.
Download or read book Panzers East and West written by Dieter Stenger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized and trained during 1943, the 10th SS Panzer Division saw its first action in the spring of 1944 during the relief of an encircled German army on the Eastern Front. Several months later, in response to the Allied invasion at Normandy, the division returned to the West in mid-June 1944. Here the division engaged in a series of armored attacks and counterattacks against British and American forces. The 10th SS briefly held off a few enemy thrusts but gradually had to fall back to Falaise, where the division escaped the Allied encirclement with no tanks and only a fraction of its men. The 10th SS Panzer Division next defended against the Allied parachute assault during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. Depleted and now a division in name only, the 10th SS fought in Alsace before Hitler sent it to the Eastern Front again. There, east of Berlin, the division participated in the final battles to enable the escape of German soldiers and civilians from Soviet captivity.
Download or read book Panzer Regiment 8 in World War II written by Kevin Fish and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formed in 1936, Panzer Regiment 8 served in both the 10th and 15th Panzer Divisions and saw action in Poland, France, and in May 1941 with the famed German Africa Corps, under the legendary Rommel. The regiment went on to serve with high distinction in every major battle fought in Africa until May 1943, when out of fuel and ammunition, the regiments ability to fight on came to an end. This book sheds new light on the history of the German panzer arm and gives in depth detail of the lives and battles that were fought by these proud Swabian troops.
Download or read book Case White written by William Russ and published by Winged Hussar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1939, Nazi Germany initiated the second world war by invading Poland. William Russ has compiled a highly detailed study of the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, examining, the actions of every group on a daily basis. This book explores the campaign down to the regimental level from the German perspective, listing every action as appropriate. The appendices provide a complete order of battle for the Germans and the Polish forces as well as their positions. There are sixty-nine maps of the campaign as well as information on armament and equipment.
Download or read book Guderian s XIXth Panzer Corps and the Battle of France written by Florian Rothburst and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-06-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain to become the definitive work in English on the Battle of France, this volume corrects all previous English accounts. With extensive use of primary documents, it places us closer to the planning, preparation, and employment of this most successful operation. It covers major changes made by the German Army after Poland and infighting surrounding these changes. Providing the only detailed day-by-day breakdown of German action during the Battle's first five days, this book presents a unique view of the German Army.
Download or read book Panzerkrieg written by Peter McCarthy and published by Carroll & Graf Publishers. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors serves up the first comprehensive account of this most important arm of the German military machine during World War II, tracing the movements of these deadly units from the initial blitzkrieg through Europe to their role in defending the Fatherland from Allied invasion. Reprint.
Download or read book Das Reich written by Max Hastings and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-renowned British historian recounts the actions of one of Hitler’s most elite armor units in one of World War II’s most horrific months. June 1944, the month of the D-Day landings carried out by Allied forces in Normandy, France. Germany’s 2nd SS Panzer Division, one of Adolf Hitler’s most elite armor units, had recently been pulled from the Eastern Front and relocated to France in order to regroup, recruit more troops, and restock equipment. With Allied forces suddenly on European ground, the division—Das Reich—was called up to counter the invasion. Its march northward to the shores of Normandy, 15,000 men strong, would become infamous as a tale of unparalleled brutality in World War II. Das Reich is Sir Max Hastings’s narrative of the atrocities committed by the 2nd SS Panzer Division during June of 1944: first, the execution of 99 French civilians in the village of Tulle on June 9; and second, the massacre of 642 more in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10. Throughout the book, Hastings expertly shifts perspective between French resistance fighters, the British Secret Service (who helped coordinate the French resistance from afar and on the ground), and the German soldiers themselves. With its rare, unbiased approach to the ruthlessness of World War II, Das Reich explores the fragile moral fabric of wartime mentality. Praise for Das Reich “A gripping blend of narrative and investigation.” —Evening Standard “This classic account of WWII is a microcosm of the global conflict. Hastings brings to life the horror that the 2nd SS Panzer division, Das Reich, inflicted upon the citizens living in a bucolic corner of France.” —Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel and Hitler’s Panzers
Download or read book The German Army Handbook written by James Lucas and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the opening shots of World War II in Poland in September 1939, through the blitzkrieg to the fall of France and the Low Countries, the German Army was at the forefront of battle. It remained in the thick of the action right up until the last desperate shots were fired over the ruins of a crumbling Third Reich in May 1945. The German Army was at the cutting edge of 20th-century military technology. Before the emergence of the US Army as a force to be reckoned with later in World War II, the German Army was the most powerful, efficient and well-equipped fighting force in the world. This text takes a look at the German Army, as it origins in the post-Versailles Treaty era and its resurgence under the Nazi regime; training and organization during the war years; equipment, vehicles and weapons; uniforms, rank and insignia.
Download or read book The Panzer Legions written by Samuel W. Mitcham and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006-12-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines vehicles, armor quality, manpower, and leadership and includes a comprehensive index of individuals, units, battles, and campaigns First guide to chronicle the history of each division from its inception to its destruction Includes a career sketch of every panzer divisional commander Hitler's tank divisions were his most lethal weapons during World War II. From success to failure, in victory and defeat, each division played a role in Hitler's campaign against the Allies.
Download or read book 10th Panzer s Blitz Across France written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 10th Panzer's Blitz Across France" is an excerpt of an article by John Latimer, originally published in the July 1998 issue of "World War II" magazine. Latimer discusses the invasion of France during World War II by the 10th Panzer Division of Nazi Germany. Cowles History Group, Inc, a division of PRIMEDIA Special Interest Publications, provides the excerpt as part of the HistoryNet online resource.
Download or read book German Northern Theater of Operations 1940 1945 Illustrated Edition written by Earl Ziemke and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 23 maps and 31 illustrations] This volume describes two campaigns that the Germans conducted in their Northern Theater of Operations. The first they launched, on 9 April 1940, against Denmark and Norway. The second they conducted out of Finland in partnership with the Finns against the Soviet Union. The latter campaign began on 22 June 1941 and ended in the winter of 1944-45 after the Finnish Government had sued for peace. The scene of these campaigns by the end of 1941 stretched from the North Sea to the Arctic Ocean and from Bergen on the west coast of Norway, to Petrozavodsk, the former capital of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. It faced east into the Soviet Union on a 700-mile-long front, and west on a 1,300-mile sea frontier. Hitler regarded this theater as the keystone of his empire, and, after 1941, maintained in it two armies totaling over a half million men. In spite of its vast area and the effort and worry which Hitler lavished on it, the Northern Theater throughout most of the war constituted something of a military backwater. The major operations which took place in the theater were overshadowed by events on other fronts, and public attention focused on the theaters in which the strategically decisive operations were expected to take place. Remoteness, German security measures, and the Russians’ well-known penchant for secrecy combined to keep information concerning the Northern Theater down to a mere trickle, much of that inaccurate. Since the war, through official and private publications, a great deal more has become known. The present volume is based in the main on the greatest remaining source of unexploited information, the captured German military and naval records. In addition a number of the participants on the German side have very generously contributed from their personal knowledge and experience.
Download or read book Toward Combined Arms Warfare written by Jonathan Mallory House and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book German Order of Battle Panzer Panzer Grenadier and Waffen SS divisions in World War II written by Samuel W. Mitcham and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive reference on the German Army in World War II, covering the organization, combat history, and commanders of each division.
Download or read book Armored Bears written by Veterans of the 3rd Panzer Division and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First major treatment of the 3rd Panzer Division in English.
Download or read book Standing Fast written by Timothy A. Wray and published by . This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Combat History of the 23rd Panzer Division in World War II written by Ernst Rebentisch and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete history of a German tank division that fought exclusively on the Eastern Front.
