CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

The Devil's General: The Life of Hyazinth Graf Von Strachwitz, the Panzer Graf by Raymond Bagdonas (Paperback, 2016)

About this product

Product Information

This is the story of the most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, known as the 'Panzer Graf' (Armoured Count). An aristocratic Silesian, whose ancestors had faced the Mongols at Leignitz, Strachwitz first won the Iron Cross in the Great War. After fighting with the Freikorps and in between the wars, he was serving with the 1st Panzer Division when the Polish campaign inaugurated World War II. Leading from the front, his exploits as commander of a panzer battalion earned him further decorations during the French campaign. Transferred to the newly formed 16th Panzer Division, he participated in the invasion of Yugoslavia and then Operation Barbarossa where he earned the Knight's Cross. The following year, during the advance on Stalingrad, he won the Oak Leaves for destroying 270 Soviet tanks at Kalach. Now commander of a regiment, he reached the Volga and fought ferociously on the northern rim of Sixth Army's perimeter. Severely wounded during the battles, he was flown out of the Stalingrad pocket. Upon recuperation, he was named commander of the Grossdeutschland Division's panzer regiment, and won the Swords to the Knight's Cross during Manstein's counteroffensive at Kharkov. After fighting through Kursk and the ensuing defensive battles, he was transferred the next year to Army Group North where he won the Diamonds to the Knight's Cross at Narva. For the rest of the war, sandwiched around a stay in hospital, he commanded ad hoc battlegroups, and pioneered the formation of tank hunter brigades, consisting of deep-penetration infantry armed with panzerfausts and other demolitions who would ambush Soviet tanks. Wounded 12 times during the war, and barely surviving a lethal car crash, he was finally able to surrender to the Americans in May 1945. Australian author/researcher Raymond Bagdonas, though impaired by the disappearance of 16th Panzer Division's official records at Stalingrad, and the fact that many of the Panzer Graf's later battlegroups never kept them, has nevertheless written an intensely detailed account of this combat leader's life, as well as ferocious armoured warfare in World War II.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Case Mate Publishers
ISBN-13
9781612004327
eBay Product ID (ePID)
225700970

Product Key Features

Publication Year
2016
Subject
Government, History
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
The Devil's General: the Life of Hyazinth Graf Von Strachwitz, the Panzer Graf
Type
Textbook
Author
Raymond Bagdonas
Format
Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
229 mm
Item Width
152 mm

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Title_Author
Raymond Bagdonas

Best Selling in Adult Learning & University

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Adult Learning & University

Nonviolent Communication 3rd Ed by Rosenberg M (Paperback, 2015)
4.8 out of 5 stars based on 4 product ratings
AU $20.16 New
AU $18.33 Used
The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill (Hardcover, 2015)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 6 product ratings
AU $135.00 New
AU $97.23 Used
A Practical Guide to Writing: Psychology, 4th Edition by Carla Taines (Paperback, 2018)
No ratings or reviews yet.
AU $90.99 New
---- Used
Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic by Paul Ehrlich, Paul R. Ehrlich (Paperback, 2021)
No ratings or reviews yet.
AU $50.26 New
AU $42.56 Used
Capital: Volume III by Karl Marx (Paperback, 1992)
No ratings or reviews yet.
AU $39.23 New
AU $34.90 Used
Building Your Own Home: A Comprehensive Guide for Owner-builders by George Wilkie (Paperback, 2019)
4.9 out of 5 stars based on 16 product ratings
AU $53.60 New
AU $30.00 Used
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning (2001, Paperback)
4.3 out of 5 stars based on 3 product ratings
AU $28.07 New
AU $20.00 Used

Save on Adult Learning & University

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Adult Learning & University

The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition by Paul Horowitz (English) Hardcover Book
AU $134.99
Trending at AU $163.98
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches,
AU $27.99
Trending at AU $29.88
The Discovery Of The Unconscious: The History And Evolution Of Dynamic Psychiatr
AU $84.43
Trending at AU $88.34
The Writing Revolution: a Guide to Advancing Thinking through Writing in All Sub
AU $42.62
Trending at AU $44.85
Ethics and Legal Professionalism in Australia 3rd Edition by Paula Baron (Englis
AU $104.99
Trending at AU $111.78
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
AU $23.02
Trending at AU $24.94

Shop by category

The Devil's General: The Life of Hyazinth Graf Von Strachwitz, the Panzer Graf by Raymond Bagdonas (Paperback, 2016)

About this product

Product Information

Product Identifiers

Product Key Features

Dimensions

Additional Product Features

Best Selling in Adult Learning & University

Nonviolent Communication 3rd Ed by Rosenberg M (Paperback, 2015)

The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill (Hardcover, 2015)

A Practical Guide to Writing: Psychology, 4th Edition by Carla Taines (Paperback, 2018)

Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic by Paul Ehrlich, Paul R. Ehrlich (Paperback, 2021)

Capital: Volume III by Karl Marx (Paperback, 1992)

Building Your Own Home: A Comprehensive Guide for Owner-builders by George Wilkie (Paperback, 2019)

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning (2001, Paperback)

Save on Adult Learning & University

The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition by Paul Horowitz (English) Hardcover Book

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches,

The Discovery Of The Unconscious: The History And Evolution Of Dynamic Psychiatr

The Writing Revolution: a Guide to Advancing Thinking through Writing in All Sub

Ethics and Legal Professionalism in Australia 3rd Edition by Paula Baron (Englis

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

You may also like

Raymond Chandler Fiction Paperback Fiction & Books

Fiction Paperback Raymond E. Feist & Fiction Books

Raymond Chandler Fiction Paperback Fiction & Crime Books

Non-Fiction Family Life Paperback Fiction & Books

Raymond Chandler Non-Fiction Paperback Fiction & Non-Fiction Books in English

Raymond E. Feist Fiction Fiction & Books