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- a boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits! Hes full to bursting with madcap plans & crazy ideas & if its
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The Panzer III was designed to be the backbone of the Panzer force & was deployed on every front. However due to its deficient armament & poor armour & despite its outstanding reliability it was obsolete by 1942. This comprehensive overview of the Panzer III in action was compiled by Emmy Award winning historian Bob Carruthers. It draws heavily on war-time intelligence reports to produce a fascinating insight into the development & combat history of the Panzer III at the tactical & operational level. Also featured are rare developments such as the flame thrower variant alongside unpublished photographs & illustrations which provide an absorbing study from an array of primary sources of the world of the Panzer III & its crews which conveys to the modern reader a vivid sense of how they were viewed at the time. ...

What was it like to confront the German panzer armies as an anti-tank gunner on the Eastern Front during the Second World War? How could you hope overcome of one of the best-equipped well-trained & tenacious armoured forces of the time? & how did the Red Armys tactics & skills develop over the course of the war in order to counter the threat posed by the elite troops of the Wehrmacht? The vivid personal narratives of Red Army anti-tank men selected for this book give a fascinating insight into these questions
- & into the first-hand experience of anti-tank warfare seventy years ago. Their testimony reveals how lethal rapid small-scale actions
- gun against tank
- were fought & it shows how such isolated actions determined the outcome of the massive offensives & counter-offensives that characterized the struggle on the Eastern Front. Panzer Killers is a valuable addition to the series of graphic eyewitness accounts of every aspect of the Red Armys war on the Eastern Front published by Pen & Sword.


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Heinz Guderian
- master of the Blitzkrieg & father of modern tank warfare
- commanded the German XIX Army Corps as it rampaged

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Ever since the Panzer units of the German Wehrmacht spearheaded the Blitzkrieg campaigns of 1939-41 these elite armoured troops have attracted particular interest. The worldwide interest attracted by the Panzer units has been shared by students & collectors of original uniforms & militaria for whom the dramatically designed black Panzerjacke has always been particularly prized. ...

From Barbarossa to Stalingrad from Kursk to Kurland panzers formed the backbone of the German forces that attempted to defeat the Soviet Union between June 1941 & May 1945. Written by tank veterans who survived the Eastern Front Panzer Warfare on the Eastern Front provides a firsthand look at armoured combat in that epic theater of World War II. All the major panzer operations & campaigns are covered in the words of men from the 4th 9th 11th 16th & 18th Panzer Divisions: Operation Barbarossa the opening invasion of the Soviet Union; the second offensive of 1942 culminating in Stalingrad; the massive armour battle at Kursk in the summer of 1943; the disastrous disintegration of the front in 1944 when entire units were decimated by tides of Soviet tanks; & the bitter chaotic fighting as the war ended in 1945. With from-the-turret immediacy the accounts compiled here capture what it was like to fight in a panzer on the Eastern Front where whole crews could be wiped out by a single enemy shell where enemy tanks could lurk just beyond the tree line where muzzles could flash & thunder in the calmest nights. One veteran remembers his commanders final words before launching a desperate attack: Write your wills comrades! " Another describes how an officer played an organ in a bombed-out church--a jarring but peaceful moment amidst the carnage of war. Others recount acts of compassion & humanity such as food provided by Russian peasants & a Soviet soldier who refused to fire. All of them convey the heady joy of victory & the fear & anguish of stalemate & then defeat. These are war stories with a powerful punch." ...

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 & resources into making an effective fighting machine. It depicts how these awesome formations grew to be used four years later in war & provides much historical information & facts about the vehicles & its components that fought in all the campaigns of the war from the early victorious Blitzkrieg in Poland & France to the last ditch defence 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 & the motorized infantry or Panzergrenadiers. This book is a visual treat for the military enthusiast & collector & a worthy addition to the Images of War series. ...

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. General Erwin Rommel A fascinating account of a deadly combination: the supreme German weapon of war in the hands of the finest military tacticians of last century. Illustrated throughout with full coverage of all the tank battles & campaigns in the Second World from the Polish Blitzkrieg to Rommel's final defeat in the African desert along with commanders strategy tactics & technical details. This book is part of ' The Hitler's War Machine' series a new military history range compiled & edited by Emmy Award winning author & historian Bob Carruthers. The series draws on primary sources & contemporary documents to provide a new insight into the true nature of Hitler's Wehrmacht. The series consultant is David Mc Whinnie creator of the award winning PBS series ' Battlefield'." ...

Few weapons of war have inspired as much awe & terror as German Panzers which shocked the world with their raw power as the Third Reichs blitzkrieg rolled across Europe in the early years of World War II. Equipped with these steel giants Panzer-Regiment 5 embodied the bold spirit of Germanys armoured force & fought with skill & courage in the African & European theatres. Panzer-Regiment 5 joined Erwin Rommel in North Africa & helped the Desert Fox win an impressive string of victories during 1941 but the regiments-and Rommels-most dazzling successes would come in 1942. After ending 1941 in defensive positions the Germans began the new year with an offensive that quickly captured Benghazi & then drove east toward the fortress of Tobruk. Destroying the Gazala Line Rommel & his Panzers took Tobruk in June & continued their push into Egypt before being halted by the British at El Alamein in October. By 1943 the African campaign had shifted west to Tunisia where Panzer-Regiment 5 battled British & American tanks & participated in Rommels last offensive at Medenine. Crippled by supply problems & Allied air superiority the Germans surrendered in May 1943. The remnants of Panzer-Regiment 5 were eventually reconstituted as Panzer-Abteilung 5 an assault gun unit & sent to the Eastern Front to contend with Soviet T-34s. Increasingly outnumbered the panzer men nevertheless fought bravely as German fortunes faded in 1944 & 1945. Featuring scores of photographs & vivid firsthand accounts from members of the unit the second of Panzers in the Sand picks up where the first left off & continues the combat history of Panzer-Regiment 5 & Panzer-Abteilung 5 from the sand & sun of North Africa to the bitter end near Berlin. ...

The Catholic Churchs best-kept secret. The ancient scrolls which threaten that secret. & a journalist prepared to discover the truth at any cost. 1947 the Qumran Valley. Ancient scrolls are discovered that the Vatican desperately tries to suppress. Only five men know of their existence. But now four of the men have been found dead.. . Priest & double agent Rafael is sent to investigate. The evidence he discovers may implicate journalist Sarah Monteiro who already knows too many of the Churchs secrets. Finding themselves dangerously entangled in a life-threatening conspiracy that the church will go to any length to protect Rafael & Sarah must uncover the truth before the killers do.. . ...