Panzerwrecks 8

Panzerwrecks 8

Author: Lee Archer

Publisher:

Published: 2009-04

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780975418390

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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.


Panzers in Berlin 1945

Panzers in Berlin 1945

Author: Lee Archer

Publisher: In Focus

Published: 2019-09-19

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781908032164

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This 392-page book is lavishly illustrated with 360 mostly unpublished photographs that take the reader from the retreat at Seelow to collecting wrecks from central Berlin.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


Panzerwrecks 11

Panzerwrecks 11

Author: Lee Archer

Publisher: Panzerwrecks

Published: 2010-11-30

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780955594090

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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 The answers to these and other questions are to be found here in Panzerwrecks 11, with 128 rare and unpublished large format photographs from around the world.


Last Panzer Battles in Hungary

Last Panzer Battles in Hungary

Author: Norbert Számvéber

Publisher:

Published: 2024-04-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9786156602275

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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 After it had been withdrawn from the Western front in the aftermath of the failed Ardennes counter offensive, it was replenished with men and gears as fully as was possible in the given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.


Forgotten Archives 1

Forgotten Archives 1

Author: Darren Neely

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781908032119

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266 razor sharp, large format unseen US Signal Corps photos over 240 pages.


Panzerwrecks 19

Panzerwrecks 19

Author: Lee Archer

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781908032126

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Panzerwrecks 19: 151 rare and unpublished large format photographs about the German fighting vehicles in Yugoslavia.