Here is a book that I just received. It's an excellent book by a dear friend Mr. Pruett. I helped with the book and am glad to let everyone know of the book. It's a great mix of photos with captions and is great for a quick read. I've already read a lot of it, and it's great!
http://www.jjfpub.mb.ca/pkg_strachwitz.htm
Panzerkampfgruppe Strachwitz, Michael H. Pruett. Hard cover, large landscape format (9”x12”), 120 pages, 1 map, 2 divisional organization charts and 140 images (most never previously published and most full page).
Although many who are familiar with the ferocious fighting on the Eastern Front in World War 2 have heard of the three “Operations Strachwitz” through references and popular accounts—the most popular of which are the memoirs of Tiger ace Otto Carius in his best-selling book, Tigers in the Mud—few have ever seen much in-depth coverage of the fighting or images of the battle area. All that has changed with Panzerkampfgruppe Strachwitz which not only presents the reader with an overview of the small-unit actions that constituted the fighting associated with these three operations, but also presents 140 professionally shot images by war correspondents assigned to the front. While the quality of German war photographers is almost universally praised, many of the images are of rather mundane subjects and not much has surfaced in terms of late-war photography. Recently, however, a file photo grouping was discovered that can unequivocally be traced to this famous small-unit action on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. That grouping features numerous images of the three most famous armored formations that participated: schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502 (Otto Carius’ Tiger battalion), the Führer-Begleit-Bataillon (Hitler’s headquarters bodyguard consisting of soldiers from Großdeutschland and other named formations) and Panzer-Grenadier-Division “Feldherrnhalle” (often referred to as Hitler’s forgotten elite). As such, these photographs fill a void in the literature and coverage and represent a boon to armor enthusiasts, unit historians, collectors and model makers.
Although many who are familiar with the ferocious fighting on the Eastern Front in World War 2 have heard of the three “Operations Strachwitz” through references and popular accounts—the most popular of which are the memoirs of Tiger ace Otto Carius in his best-selling book, Tigers in the Mud—few have ever seen much in-depth coverage of the fighting or images of the battle area. All that has changed with Panzerkampfgruppe Strachwitz which not only presents the reader with an overview of the small-unit actions that constituted the fighting associated with these three operations, but also presents 140 professionally shot images by war correspondents assigned to the front. While the quality of German war photographers is almost universally praised, many of the images are of rather mundane subjects and not much has surfaced in terms of late-war photography. Recently, however, a file photo grouping was discovered that can unequivocally be traced to this famous small-unit action on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. That grouping features numerous images of the three most famous armored formations that participated: schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502 (Otto Carius’ Tiger battalion), the Führer-Begleit-Bataillon (Hitler’s headquarters bodyguard consisting of soldiers from Großdeutschland and other named formations) and Panzer-Grenadier-Division “Feldherrnhalle” (often referred to as Hitler’s forgotten elite). As such, these photographs fill a void in the literature and coverage and represent a boon to armor enthusiasts, unit historians, collectors and model makers.
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