Panzer-Divisions at War, 1939-1945

by Ian Baxter

Overview

From the beginning in 1935 this attractive book describes the different elements that went into the Panzer-Divisions. It describes how the Germans carefully built up their assault forces utilizing all available reserves and resources into making an effective fighting machine. It depicts how these awesome formations grew to be used four years later in war, and provides much historical information and facts about the vehicles and its components that fought in all the campaigns of the war from the early victorious Blitzkrieg in Poland and France to the last ditch defense in Germany in 1945. Each chapter features unseen photographs of light tanks, main battle tanks, assault guns, anti-tank destroyers, artillery, reconnaissance units, support vehicles, pioneers with their bridge building platforms and the motorized infantry or Panzergrenadiers.This book is a visual treat for the military enthusiast and collector and a worthy addition to the Images of War series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783039067
Publisher:	Pen & Sword Books Limited
Publication date:	11/06/2006
Series:	Images of War
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	739,601
File size:	36 MB
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About the Author

Ian Baxter is an avid collector of WW2 photographs. His previous books in this series include Hitlers Boy Soldiers, Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants, and German Army on the Eastern Front: The Advance, German Army on the Eastern Front: The Retreat, and Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants, The Crushing of Army Group (North), and the SS Waffen Division series including SS Leibstandarte Division and SS Totenkopf Division At War. He lives near Chelmsford, Essex.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements     4
Foreword     5
Development and Training     7
Blitzkrieg Unleashed - Poland     19
Western Campaign     33
The Balkans     51
Barbarossa     67
The Afrika Korps     85
Battles on the Eastern Front     97
Defeat in the West     117
The End Comes     135
Glossary     157