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German Order of Battle Volume Three: Panzer, Panzer Grenadier, and Waffen SS Divisions in WWII (Stackpole Military History Series)

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What an effort to have researched every major german unit that fought in WWII. These series give a brief account of the combat history of german divisions. The only fault is that I have come across contradictory information involving some division histories, so who's right I couldn't tell you. If you're interested in a basic overview of virtually EVERYTHING the germans put into combat, at divisional level, then these are priced reasonably, easy to read and well worth it.

A good techical book to do reserch on the Army Panzers, Panzers Grenadier Divisions, and Waffen-SS Divisions. The book also gives a breif history of the Groups and Corps though out the Secound World War. There is a chronology of the war at the end of the book.

You will need to buy Volume I & II to complete the set.

I thought that the book was worth the money.

This is not an indepth review. I never made it that far and being removed from my other resourses have no means of information verification anyway. I had purchased all three books in the series. After looking through all three volumes, I was not happy with them at all. Judging solely from the incorrect captions of the few photographs included. (at least 50% of them were incorrectly captioned) Mr. Mitcham appears to not be as knowledgeable as his petigree would indicate. My concern was; how could someone whose research allows them to misidentify MP 40 submachine guns as light machine guns or a Pzkpfw 35 as a Pzkpfw II do the research required to correctly identify the units and subordinate units of an army as large and diverse as the German forces of WW II. In fairness I did not cross-reference his work with other sources and it may be accurate. However if he did not take the time to correctly caption the few photographs, then I will not take the time to worry about the validity of the rest of his work and I will use Nafziger for order of battle information. I promptly prepared a product return form.