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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.

Death of the Leaping Horseman: The 24th Panzer Division in Stalingrad

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Hardback by Jason D. Marks

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The gripping book about a panzer division and its battles in the shattered streets of Stalingrad. In Death of the... Read more

    Publisher: Stackpole Books
    Publication Date: 15/09/2014
    ISBN13: 9780811714044, 978-0811714044
    ISBN10: 0811714047

    Number of Pages: 560

    Non Fiction , History , Military History

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    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.

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