Download or read book Panzerwrecks 8 written by Lee Archer and published by . This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eighth volume focuses on the German resistance to the Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944 with 123 photos of German armor derived from Polish, Canadian, British and American sources. Features include 'Operation Cobra,' German Guns on French vehicles, rocket firing half tracks, and loads of Tiger photos, with most images printed one to a page for maximum clarity. Concise captions remark on unit and vehicle identification, colors and camouflage. This is Part One of a two part series.
Download or read book Panzerwrecks 5 written by Lee Archer and published by Panzerwrecks. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Combat History of Sturmpanzer Abteilung 217 written by TIMM. VOSTERS HAASLER (SIMON.) and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combat History of Sturmpanzer-Abteilung 217 tells the story of the only Sturmpanzer IV equipped unit to see action on the western front. Formed in May 1944, Stu.Pz.Abt.217 fought in Normandy, Belgium, Aachen and the Ardennes Offensive before finally perishing in Ruhr pocket in April 1945.Researched over more than twenty years using hundreds of German and American records, authors Timm Haasler and Simon Vosters have meticulously retraced the steps of the battalion to offer the reader the most comprehensive coverage to date.This 284-page book is illustrated with 183-large-format photographs, ten maps and seven specially commissioned artworks by Felipe Rodna, including interior views. QR-codes feature on a number of pages, just point your smartphone camera at them to see the scene today in Google Maps or Street View.
Download or read book Panzerwrecks 20 written by Lee Archer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kamen Nevenkin and Lee Archer join forces to bring you hitherto unseen photos from the depths of the Russian archives in Panzerwrecks 20: Ostfront 3. This book is exclusively about the havoc and wreckage inflicted on the Panzerwaffe by the Russian airforce around Lake Balaton in Hungary. Lots of late war German AFVs in varying stages of destruction - perfect for the modeler or student of armored conflict. Specially commissioned colour artwork by Felipe Rodna show selected Panzers and the weapons used by the Soviet airforce. Includes a map of the battlefield.
Download or read book Panzerwrecks 15 written by Lee Archer and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 Panzerwrecks 11 written by Lee Archer and published by Panzerwrecks. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pz.Kpfw.II's helped overrun France in 1940. Who still had them in 1944? Where? What strange vehicle had spikes and cleats and roamed the sunken lanes of Normandy on gigantic iron wheels? What unusual feature was seen on a knocked out "Puma?" When you kitbash a Sd.Kfz.222 and a Sd.Kfz.251 in 1:1 scale, what do you get, and who gets credit for it? Only one German AFV met the Allied invasion forces on the beaches. Which one? The answers to these and other questions are to be found here in Panzerwrecks 11, with 128 rare and unpublished large format photographs from around the world.
Download or read book Last Panzer Battles in Hungary written by Norbert Számvéber and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last phase of the Second World War the Sixth Panzer Army was the last army available to the German military leadership which was more or less intact and was capable of launching a major offensive. After it had been withdrawn from the Western front in the aftermath of the failed Ardennes counter offensive, it was replenished with men and gears as fully as was possible in the given circumstances, and as a result it almost regained its 1944 autumn strength. It would not have been a surprise if it had been deployed on German territory against the Allied troops advancing to Rhine, or in Silesia or in the Baltics or even if it had been sent as a reinforcement to the Army Group Vistula to defend the distant approaches to Berlin against the advancing Soviet army - reinforcement and fresh troops capable of launching counter offensives were desperately needed everywhere. But it happened otherwise: the Sixth Army was deployed in Hungary and participated in the Operation Spring Awakening, launched in the western part of the country on 6th of March, 1945. This was the last German "big offensive" in the course of the Second World War. Several questions come to mind about the operation. What were the goals originally set to be achieved by this seemingly pointless attack? What role was assigned to the once formidable German Panzer Corps? Is it true that the Soviet command used the same defense directives as had been used during the battle of Kursk in 1943 because they had proved to be viable then? What types of tanks and armored vehicles fight in West Hungary and in what numbers? How did the American made M4A2 tanks manned by Soviet crews fare against the much heavier German Panther and Tiger B tanks on the Hungarian soil? What were the losses on both sides in tanks and armored vehicles? To what extent can be the prompt and powerful response of the Soviet side - the offensive towards Vienna - evaluated as being successful? How did the Germans, the Soviets, the Hungarians and the Bulgarians use their tanks and armored vehicles in this operation? Besides giving a detailed chronological description of the events, the book tries to find answers to these questions. The facts extracted from the operational documents of the fighting sides have been supplemented with excerpts from diaries and memoirs, and even the maps have been drawn on the basis of the original ones. The author has explored some new archival sources kept in Russian archives and also incorporated some published Russian materials into his research that was neglected up until now by other researchers, along with some newly published German memoirs - all this has made possible to create a narrative of the events related to us by the author in hitherto unprecedented detail.
Download or read book In Focus 1 written by Lee Archer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the Jagdpanzer 38 Panzerwrecks style; 117 large format photographs, detailed captions and specially commissioned artwork.
Download or read book Panzerwrecks 21 written by Lee Archer and published by Panzerwrecks. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Panzerwrecks 22 written by Lee Archer and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long time coming, Panzerwrecks presents its first book about the wrecks in the desert campaign: Panzerwrecks 22: Desert. Everything you have come to expect from Panzerwrecks - high production values, new photos and stunning original artwork from Felipe Rodna.
Download or read book Duel in the Mist 3 written by Timm Haasler and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tigers in Normandy written by Wolfgang Schneider and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The author] details the combat history of the Tiger in the months following the Allies' invasion of France ... The Tiger might have bested most of its opponents in tank-on-tank combat, but the Germans' deteriorating situation in Normandy meant that the Tigers could not be deployed effectively and that losses could not be replaced. The surviving Tigers joined the battered German forces that escaped through the Falaise Gap in August 1944. Featuring orders of battle, tank inventories, maps, period photos, and then-and-now shots of terrain, [this book] vividly recreates the Tiger's battles from June to August 1944 and carefully assesses its tactical and operational performance"--Jacket.
Download or read book Panzerwrecks 17 written by Lee Archer and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 126 rare and mostly unpublished photos showing Panzers knocked out in the battles for the Normandy hedgerows. Panthers, Tigers, Jagdpanthers and more! Features on the rocket firing 15cm Panzerwerfer 42, s.Pz.Jg.Abt 654, concrete-covered Sturmgeschütz and the recovery of a Panther tank by the Allies. Sourced from Canadian, British and American archives and veterans' collections. Our large landscape format allows the photos to be studied in detail, and our captions are vetted by experts in military vehicle histories.
Download or read book The Panzers of Prokhorovka written by Ben Wheatley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking new study that transforms our understanding of one of the most famous battles of the Second World War, widely mythologized as the largest tank battle in history. Today in Russia there are three official sacred battlefields: Kulikovo, where the Mongols were defeated in 1380; Borodino, where Russian troops slowed Napoleon's Grande Armée before Moscow in 1812; the third is Prokhorovka, where the Soviet annihilation of Hitler's elite SS Panzer force on 12 July 1943 in the largest armoured clash in history has traditionally been described as a key turning point in the war. The Panzers of Prokhorovka challenges this narrative. The battle was indeed an important Soviet victory, but a very different one to that described above. Based on ground-breaking archival research and supported by previously unpublished images of the battlefield, Ben Wheatley argues that German armoured losses were in fact negligible and a fresh approach is required to understand Prokhorovka. This book tackles the many myths that have built up over the years, and presents a new analysis of this famous engagement.
Download or read book Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1941 1942 written by Robert Forczyk and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Case White: The Invasion of Poland delves into the strategy and weaponry of armored warfare during the early years of the Russo-German War. The German panzer armies that swept into the Soviet Union in 1941 were an undefeated force that had honed their skill in combined arms warfare to a fine edge. The Germans focused their panzers and tactical air support at points on the battlefield defined as Schwerpunkt—main effort—to smash through any defensive line and then advance to envelope their adversaries. Initially, these methods worked well in the early days of Operation Barbarossa and the tank forces of the Red Army suffered defeat after defeat. Although badly mauled in the opening battles, the Red Army’s tank forces did not succumb to the German armored onslaught and German planning and logistical deficiencies led to over-extension and failure in 1941. In the second year of the invasion, the Germans directed their Schwerpunkt toward the Volga and the Caucasus and again achieved some degree of success, but the Red Army had grown much stronger and by November 1942, the Soviets were able to turn the tables at Stalingrad. Robert Forczyk’s incisive study offers fresh insight into how the two most powerful mechanized armies of the Second World War developed their tactics and weaponry during the critical early years of the Russo-German War. He uses German, Russian and English sources to provide the first comprehensive overview and analysis of armored warfare from the German and Soviet perspectives. His analysis of the greatest tank war in history is compelling reading. Includes photos
