Death Of The Leaping Horseman - The 24th Panzer Division In Stalingrad

The gripping book about a panzer division and its battles in the shattered streets of Stalingrad. In Death of the Leaping Horseman, the untold story of 24. Panzer-Division’s savage fighting on Stalingrad’s outskirts and in the devastated ruins of the city itself is revealed in a detailed day-by-day account. Beginning in the heady days of the victorious march toward Stalingrad in August 1942, the book follows the division into Stalingrad’s suburbs as it is slowly and inexorably sucked into the fiery crucible that was Stalingrad. Panzer losses and casualties increased daily until finally, after three months of draining combat, the division was reduced to a battle group consisting of a couple of panzers and a few hundred men.

This book is very rare and in immaculate condition.

Revised edition of a rare account of a German armored division in combat at the epic Battle of Stalingrad.

• Day-by-day story of the 24th Panzer Division's savage fighting in the streets of Stalingrad in 1942
• Eyewitness accounts from participants reveal the brutality of this battle
• Photos from official archives, private collections, and veterans--most of them never seen before
• Used copies of the out-of-print earlier edition sell for more than € 700
• A treasure trove for historians, buffs, modelers, and wargamers

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1942 but stayed 1943 in Stalingrad 26 Panzergrenadier-Regiment 26 Abteilung Adjutant anti-tank rifles armoured artillery attack August battalion Batterie born Broich Casualties Chef combat Cross First Class Cross in Gold Cross Second Class defensive Died Division’s east enemy establishment of Division Factory front Gefreiter Generalmajor German Cross grenadiers Gruppe Edelsheim gully Hauenschild Hauptmann Hill II./Panzergrenadier-Regiment Infanterie-Division infantry Iron Cross Iron Cross Second January Kampfgruppe Kempf Knight’s Cross Korps Kradschützen-Abteilung Leutnant d.R. Major von Menges Mamayev Kurgan November Obergefreiter Oberleutnant Oberleutnant RDA Oberst Friebe Oberstleutnant Oberwachtmeister October Ordonanzoffizier Panzer III Panzer III lg Panzer IV Panzer-Division Panzer-Regiment 24 Panzerartillerie-Regiment 89 Panzergrenadier Panzergrenadier-Regiment 21 Panzergrenadier-Regiment 26 Panzergrenadier-Regiment Peacetime unit PGR21 Killed PGR21 Wounded platoon positions Promoted to Oberleutnant railway line Regiment Reiter-Regiment Rittmeister Rossoshka Sammelfriedhof sector September 1942 Sonderführer Stukas survived captivity Survived Stalingrad troops Tsatsa Unteroffizier vehicles Volga Wachtmeister Wounded but stayed Zug Kdr Zug Kommandeur Zugführer