Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945Drawing from post-war reports commissioned by U.S. Army intelligence, World War II historian Steven H. Newton has translated, compiled, and edited the battle accounts of one of Germany's finest panzer commanders and a skilled tactician of tank warfare. Throughout most of the war, Erhard Raus was a highly respected field commander in the German-Soviet war on the eastern front, and after the war he wrote an insightful analysis of German strategy in that campaign.The Raus memoir covers the Russian campaign from the first day of the war to his relief from command at Hitler's order in the spring of 1945. It includes a detailed examination of the 6th Panzer Division's drive to Leningrad, Raus's own experiences in the Soviet winter counteroffensive around Moscow, the unsuccessful attempt to relieve Stalingrad, and the final desperate battles inside Germany at the end of the war. His battlefield experience and keen tactical eye make his memoir especially valuable for scholars, and his narrative is as readable as Heinz Guderian's celebrated Panzer Leader. |
Contents
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3 To the Russian Border | 35 |
4 The Gateway to Leningrad | 46 |
5 Moscow | 84 |
6 Winter War | 95 |
7 Outside Stalingrad | 137 |
8 Kharkov and Kursk | 185 |
9 Belgorod and Kharkov | 213 |
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1st Panzer Division 6th Panzer Division 6th Panzer Division’s advance Aksay Aksay River antitank guns Armeeabteilung armored Army Group Army Group North Army’s arrived artillery assault guns attack battalion batteries battle Belgorod breakthrough bridge bridgehead brigade bunkers captured Colonel columns combat commander concentrated Corps’s counterattack crossing defensive detachments Donets elements encircled enemy tanks enemy’s engineers equipment fighting fire flank forest Fourth Panzer Army front line German headquarters heavy weapons Himmler immediately improvised Infantry Division Kampfgruppe Kharkov kilometers large numbers Leningrad Lieutenant Luftwaffe Luga Luga River machine guns moved night offensive operations Panzer Regiment 11 Panzergrenadier penetrated positions PzKw railroad Raseinai reached rear reconnaissance Red Army reinforced reserves rifle River road Russian tanks sector situation soldiers Soviet tanks spearheads SS Panzer strongpoints swamps tactical terrain Third Panzer Army thrust tion troops units vehicles village Vyasovka withdrawal XI Corps XLI Panzer Corps XLVIII Panzer Corps