Panther Tanks - German Army Panzer Brigades: Western and Eastern Fronts, 1944-1945

Uses archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations to examine the Panther battalions of the Panzer brigades.

In July 1944, with the Eastern Front crumbling and the first cracks appearing in the Normandy defenses, Hitler ordered the creation of a new type of unit based on the ad—hoc Kampfgruppen which the Germans used so successfully throughout the war. Hastily assembled and short—lived these independent Panzer brigades nevertheless served on both fronts in some of the fierces...