Book Review of
Zitadelle: The SS-Panzer-Korps
On the Attack, July 1943
Author: Massimiliano Afiero
Kagero Books
ISBN: 978-1-8362-4270-5
By Ray Mehlberger
Copyright: 2019
ISBN: 978-1-8362-4270-5
By Ray Mehlberger
Copyright: 2019
THE BOOK:
Kagero Books is based in Lublin, Poland. There books are sometimes in both Polish and English. This book is all in English.
The book is soft cover of 96 pages (2 pages are blank) in 8” x 11 ¾” page format.
Including the cover art, the book contains 304 black and white photos.
The cover art has 2 black and white wartime photos on it, that are repeated again inside the book.
The photo at the top is of a Stug III Ausf. F of the Leibstandarte. The photo at the bottom is of a Tiger of Schw.kp SS-Pz.Ra 12.
Photos in the book show German soldiers and tank crewmen, weapons, Pz.Kpfw. IV’S, Pz.Kpfw. III Ausf. A, B & J’s, a Sd.Kfz. 263 radio equipped vehicle, a Stug II, a Horch truck and a Bison self-propelled Sd.Kfz. 251.
Exactly seventy years after the battle of Kursk, which was probably the greatest tank battle of WWII and perhaps of all military history, comes this new publication, characterized above all by the presence of hundreds of period photos. For to be able to relive those tragic and terrible events almost closely. As if to “touch” the battlefield with our hands, through the images of the German war correspondents, following the SS units, Max Buschel, Cantzler, Gronert, King, Friedrich Zhackel and many others.
Photos of men, weapons and vehicles, taken on the battlefield, before, during and after the engagements, during the rare moments of rest, “frozen” on rolls of film, a true testament to military history. An exceptional photographic documentation, which is hoped will be useful to historians, military history students and modeling enthusiasts, who can get new ideas for their figurines, models and dioramas.
Some photos are already known, but every effort has been made to include whenever possible new material as well. Previously unpublished data, coming from the principal public and private archives offer readers a really new editorial product. The course of operations was analyzed mainly from the point of view of the Das Reich Division, taking the information directly from German war diaries and from Otto Weidinger's previous historical researches on the same division.
In the text, however, there is no lack of references to other formations of the SS-Panzer-Korps, whose units always acted in close collaboration during the course of the offensive.
This is a neat book about this action. It will be of great interest to modelers and military historians as said.
I sincerely wish to thank Casemate Publishers for this review sample. Casemate is the N. American distributor of Kagero Books and all their titles can be viewed on Casemate’s website at:
Kagero Books is based in Lublin, Poland. There books are sometimes in both Polish and English. This book is all in English.
The book is soft cover of 96 pages (2 pages are blank) in 8” x 11 ¾” page format.
Including the cover art, the book contains 304 black and white photos.
The cover art has 2 black and white wartime photos on it, that are repeated again inside the book.
The photo at the top is of a Stug III Ausf. F of the Leibstandarte. The photo at the bottom is of a Tiger of Schw.kp SS-Pz.Ra 12.
Photos in the book show German soldiers and tank crewmen, weapons, Pz.Kpfw. IV’S, Pz.Kpfw. III Ausf. A, B & J’s, a Sd.Kfz. 263 radio equipped vehicle, a Stug II, a Horch truck and a Bison self-propelled Sd.Kfz. 251.
Exactly seventy years after the battle of Kursk, which was probably the greatest tank battle of WWII and perhaps of all military history, comes this new publication, characterized above all by the presence of hundreds of period photos. For to be able to relive those tragic and terrible events almost closely. As if to “touch” the battlefield with our hands, through the images of the German war correspondents, following the SS units, Max Buschel, Cantzler, Gronert, King, Friedrich Zhackel and many others.
Photos of men, weapons and vehicles, taken on the battlefield, before, during and after the engagements, during the rare moments of rest, “frozen” on rolls of film, a true testament to military history. An exceptional photographic documentation, which is hoped will be useful to historians, military history students and modeling enthusiasts, who can get new ideas for their figurines, models and dioramas.
Some photos are already known, but every effort has been made to include whenever possible new material as well. Previously unpublished data, coming from the principal public and private archives offer readers a really new editorial product. The course of operations was analyzed mainly from the point of view of the Das Reich Division, taking the information directly from German war diaries and from Otto Weidinger's previous historical researches on the same division.
In the text, however, there is no lack of references to other formations of the SS-Panzer-Korps, whose units always acted in close collaboration during the course of the offensive.
This is a neat book about this action. It will be of great interest to modelers and military historians as said.
I sincerely wish to thank Casemate Publishers for this review sample. Casemate is the N. American distributor of Kagero Books and all their titles can be viewed on Casemate’s website at:
Highly recommended.