Waffen-SS Armour on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945

An illustrated history of Nazi Germany's Panzer units along the Eastern Front during World War II.

Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, codename Operation Barbarossa, was arguably the pivotal moment of the Second World War. Initially the onslaught was staggeringly successful with, as the superb contemporary images in this book show, Waffen-SS armored divisions leading the charge. But the Nazis had underestimated the Russians' determination to defend their homeland and the logistical probl...