Tag: Panzers

Panzers I & II Germany’s Light Tanks (Hitler’s War Machine)


Free Download Panzers I & II: Germany’s Light Tanks (Hitler’s War Machine) by Bob Carruthers
English | August 19th, 2013 | ISBN: 1781592098 | 96 pages | True EPUB | 10.32 MB
The first vehicle to be produced in any numbers for the Panzerwaffe was the tiny Panzer I known as the MG Panzerwagen. Almost from the outset the limitations of the design for the Panzer I were obvious. It was essentially a training vehicle, which was only pressed into service as a last resort. It was to be succeeded by the Panzer II, which could at least engage armored cars and combat against tanks with approximately the same armor as itself.

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Smashing Hitler’s Panzers The Defeat of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division in the Battle of the Bulge [Audiobook]


Free Download Steven Zaloga, Paul Brion (Narrator), "Smashing Hitler’s Panzers: The Defeat of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division in the Battle of the Bulge"
English | ASIN: B07JMFGSSY | 2018 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:21:00 | 266 MB
In his riveting new book, Steven Zaloga describes how American foot soldiers faced down Hitler’s elite armored spearhead – the Hitler Youth Panzer Division – in the snowy Ardennes forest during one of World War II’s biggest battles, the Battle of the Bulge.
The Hitler Youth division was assigned the mission of the Führer’s Ardennes offensive: Capture the main highway to the primary objective, Antwerp, whose seizure Hitler believed would end the war. Had the Germans taken the Belgian port, it would have cut off the Americans from the British and perhaps led to a second, more devastating Dunkirk. In Zaloga’s careful reconstruction, a succession of American infantry units – the 99th Division, the 2nd Division, and the 1st Division (the famous Big Red One) – fought a series of battles that denied Hitler the best roads to Antwerp and doomed his offensive. American G.I.s – some of them seeing combat for the very first time – had stymied Hitler’s panzers and grand plans.

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