Authors:Bryan Perrett, Mike Chappell,  Mike Badrocke,
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: vanguard, new, panzerjager, sturmartillerie
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1841760048
ISBN-13: 9781841760049

Originally the German assault gun was designed as an infantry support weapon, but the changing conditions of the battlefields of the Second World War forced it to adapt to perform a number of different roles, most importantly as a tank destroyer, although the infantry support role was never wholly discarded. If the much-glamorised Panzer divisions were the sword of the German army then the assault gun and tank destroyer units were its shield. As the Panzers’ grip on the battlefield began to fail, though, it was left to the assault gun and tank destroyer crews to take up the burden.

Authors:Christine Alexander, Mason Kunze,
Publisher: Casemate Pub
Keywords: eastern, panzerjager, german, journals, inferno
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-12-07
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1935149474
ISBN-13: 9781935149477

This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before.Hans Roth was a member of the anti-tank (Panzerjager) battalion, 299th Infantry Division, attached to Sixth Army, as the invasion of Russia began. Writing as events transpired, he recorded the mystery and tension as the Germans deployed on the Soviet frontier in June 1941. Then a firestorm broke loose as the Wehrmacht tore across the front, forging into the pr