Table of Contents
List of Illustrations v
List of Maps vi
Preface vii
A Note on German Terminology and Unit Nomenclature viii
Glossary ix
Chapter 1 Antecedents 1
Chapter 2 Origins of the Panzerwaffe 9
Chapter 3 The First Operations 18
Chapter 4 The French Campaign 27
Chapter 5 Formation of the 11. Panzer-Division 37
Chapter 6 The Serbian Campaign 47
Chapter 7 Operation Barbarossa 57
Chapter 8 Barbarossa: Exploitation 70
Chapter 9 Operation Taifun 81
Chapter 10 Russian Winter: 1941-42 91
Chapter 11 Operations BT.AU and Wirbelwind 105
Chapter 12 Battles of the River Chir 118
Chapter 13 Back to the Donets 129
Chapter 14 Kharkov Counterattack 142
Chapter 15 Interlude: Spring 1943 152
Chapter 16 Preparations for Operation Zitadelle 162
Chapter 17 Zitadelle: The German Offensive 171
Chapter 18 Zitadelle: The Russian Counteroffensive 181
Chapter 19 The Kessel of Graivoron 189
Chapter 20 Defense of the Dnepr 203
Chapter 21 Cherkassy-Korsun Kessel 214
Chapter 22 From Russia to Southern France 225
Chapter 23 Rhonetal 238
Chapter 24 From Lyon to the Burgundian Gate 252
Chapter 25 The German Recovery 260
Chapter 26 Counterattack in Lorraine 269
Chapter 27 Linear Defense in Lorraine 279
Chapter 28 Mobile Defense in Lorraine 287
Chapter 29 Defense of the Saar 297
Chapter 30 Eifel and Orscholzriegel 306
Chapter 31 Defense of the Rhine 316
Chapter 32 Erom Germany to Czechoslovakia 326
Chapter 33 The Gespenster-Division Dismounts 334
Chapter 34 Epilogue 344
Appendix A Table of Comparative Ranks 351
Appendix B 11. Panzer-Division Units and Commanders, 1940-45 353
Appendix C 11. Panzer-Division Units and Commanders in the West, 1944-45 355
Appendix D 11. Panzer-Division: Die Ritterkreuzträger 357
Notes 360
Bibliography 396
Index 402
