Research Material

jonhooper · Post by **jonhooper** » Mon Jan 22, 2001 3:11 am

Although I've been gaming for years, its usually from the American perspective. Are there any good books out there on German small unit tactics, both armor and infantry? I've bookmarked many internet sites which I've gotten off of this forum, but you can never have too much reading material.

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Mon Jan 22, 2001 7:29 am

Some pretty good books on this theme would be:

Anvil of War, Tsouras
Fighting in Hell, Rauss-Tsouras
Small Unit Actions during the German Campaign in Russia, CMH

I've found these very helpful. Good scenario ideas, too!..WB

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jonhooper · Post by **jonhooper** » Mon Jan 22, 2001 7:40 am

Thanks Wild Bill. Seems like I'm saying that alot lately.

jonhooper · Post by **jonhooper** » Mon Jan 22, 2001 7:45 am

Thanks Wild Bill. Seems like I'm saying that alot lately.

Drake · Post by **Drake** » Mon Jan 22, 2001 8:05 am

Since this is a Research Material topic I figgered I would add some more sites that I found really good that you may want to chick out.

France 1940, very nice site http://members.tripod.com/~France40/index.html#Army

Norway 1940, The best site that I have seen on Norway campaign and one of the best WW2 sites in my mind. http://hem.fyristorg.com/robertm/norge/

Military Historic Panzer Battles!
A OK site http://www.xs4all.nl/~gjlingen/

Polish Campaign 1939
Not a bad site, the best I have seen yet on this campaign. http://mops.uci.agh.edu.pl/~rzepinsk/1939/index2.htm

Battle of the Bulge
Best site on this battle that I have found. http://users.skynet.be/bulgecriba/battlebul.htm

The Battles of Winter War
The best site I found on the winter war http://www.winterwar.com/

This site has a very nice timeline of WW2. http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/main.htm

Just for something deffrent, this is a really nice U-boat site. http://uboat.net/

A nice site on armour http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/4635/

A nice site devoted to the Panther http://members.tripod.com/~dietmagic/panther.html

PKKA
Site with some nice info on the Red Army. http://www.dol.ru/users/hotdog/home.htm

Finland in World War II
A ok site on the Winter War http://www.hkkk.fi/~yrjola/war/finland_wwii.html/

Two of the best map sites I have found. http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/WWIIPages/WWIIEurope/WWIIEToC.htm http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/history_ww2.html#European

Some nice OOB sites

Armoured Formation Profiles http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8418/#top

ORDER OF BATTLE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY WORLD WAR II http://www2.army.mil/cmh-pg/documents/eto-ob/etoob-toc.htm

WWII Orders of Battle and Organizations http://www.freeport-tech.com/WWII/000_admin/000oob.htm

A nice armour Pic site http://www.inf.upol.cz/~stepanos/ww2.html

Some interesting Pics http://members.nbci.com/KievPapa/germany.htm

WWII Statistics
Some interesting stats. http://www.angelfire.com/ct/ww2europe/stats.html

A nice site on The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion. http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/bsmills/UNIT_HISTORY/unit_history.html

Some interesting info on the normandy compaign at this site. http://home.swipnet.se/normandy/

Will thats all for now, more thin likely I will add more later.

Panzer Capta · Post by **Panzer Capta** » Mon Jan 22, 2001 8:41 am

Would also highly recommend the works of David Glantz (Eastern Front).

jonhooper · Post by **jonhooper** » Mon Jan 22, 2001 9:51 am

Originally posted by Drake:
Since this is a Research Material topic I figgered I would add some more sites that I found really good that you may want to chick out.

France 1940, very nice site http://members.tripod.com/~France40/index.html#Army

Norway 1940, The best site that I have seen on Norway campaign and one of the best WW2 sites in my mind. http://hem.fyristorg.com/robertm/norge/

Military Historic Panzer Battles!
A OK site http://www.xs4all.nl/~gjlingen/

Polish Campaign 1939
Not a bad site, the best I have seen yet on this campaign. http://mops.uci.agh.edu.pl/~rzepinsk/1939/index2.htm

Battle of the Bulge
Best site on this battle that I have found. http://users.skynet.be/bulgecriba/battlebul.htm

The Battles of Winter War
The best site I found on the winter war http://www.winterwar.com/

This site has a very nice timeline of WW2. http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/main.htm

Just for something deffrent, this is a really nice U-boat site. http://uboat.net/

A nice site on armour http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/4635/

A nice site devoted to the Panther http://members.tripod.com/~dietmagic/panther.html

PKKA
Site with some nice info on the Red Army. http://www.dol.ru/users/hotdog/home.htm

Finland in World War II
A ok site on the Winter War http://www.hkkk.fi/~yrjola/war/finland_wwii.html/

Two of the best map sites I have found. http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/WWIIPages/WWIIEurope/WWIIEToC.htm http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/history_ww2.html#European[/ URL]

Some nice OOB sites

Armoured Formation Profiles [URL=http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8418/#top]http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8418/#top

ORDER OF BATTLE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY WORLD WAR II http://www2.army.mil/cmh-pg/documents/eto-ob/etoob-toc.htm

WWII Orders of Battle and Organizations http://www.freeport-tech.com/WWII/000_admin/000oob.htm

A nice armour Pic site http://www.inf.upol.cz/~stepanos/ww2.html

Some interesting Pics http://members.nbci.com/KievPapa/germany.htm

WWII Statistics
Some interesting stats. http://www.angelfire.com/ct/ww2europe/stats.html

A nice site on The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion. http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/bsmills/UNIT_HISTORY/unit_history.html

Some interesting info on the normandy compaign at this site. http://home.swipnet.se/normandy/

Will thats all for now, more thin likely I will add more later.

Thanks Drake, guess I'll be up reading most of the night.

jonhooper · Post by **jonhooper** » Mon Jan 22, 2001 9:53 am

Originally posted by Panzer Captain:
Would also highly recommend the works of David Glantz (Eastern Front).

I appreciate the information Panzer Captain.

Marcus Wendel · Post by **Marcus Wendel** » Mon Jan 22, 2001 9:44 pm

Try http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/

A book you might try is "Panzertaktik: German Small-Unit Armor Tactics" by Wolfgang Schneider. I have not read it but it is supposed to be very good.

/Marcus

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jonhooper · Post by **jonhooper** » Tue Jan 23, 2001 2:47 am

Originally posted by Marcus Wendel:
Try http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/

A book you might try is "Panzertaktik: German Small-Unit Armor Tactics" by Wolfgang Schneider. I have not read it but it is supposed to be very good.

/Marcus

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I'll check it out Marcus, thanks.

RockinHarry · Post by **RockinHarry** » Tue Jan 23, 2001 8:43 pm

And still...
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/dl/atoz.htm

Handbook on German Forces (TM 30-410), May 1945, Chaps IV-VII ---> 40,5 MB size download

with some good information on german tactics.

RockinHarry

jonhooper · Post by **jonhooper** » Wed Jan 24, 2001 12:31 am

Originally posted by RockinHarry:
And still...
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/dl/atoz.htm

Handbook on German Forces (TM 30-410), May 1945, Chaps IV-VII ---> 40,5 MB size download

with some good information on german tactics.

RockinHarry

Outstanding site. Looks like I'll be reading this afternoon.

panda124c · Post by **panda124c** » Thu Feb 01, 2001 2:50 am

I stumbled arcoss this site the other day
http://members.aol.com/super6th/

6th Armoured Division WWII very interesting the personal account talks about tatical orginization and formations a little.

I wonder, it might be possible to find other WWII histories and sites by searching on the unit.

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Thu Feb 01, 2001 3:12 am

Great stuff, guys. Thanks for sharing. And you are very welcome big Jon. I hope you can find those books. Some are out of print.

Wild Bill

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skukko · Post by **skukko** » Thu Feb 01, 2001 6:11 am

Hi, I had time while waiting forum re-open, so, don't forget Feldgrau
http://www.feldgrau.com/

and here is one interesting page, if tactics is your goal:
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/20234/20234.html

and finally good page to start:
http://www.wrightmuseum.org/wwII.htm

mosh

skukko · Post by **skukko** » Sun Feb 18, 2001 1:34 pm

http://www.thehistorynet.com/general/articleindex/worldwar.htm
http://www.britwar.co.uk/lists/index.htm
http://www.geipelnet.com/war_albums/otto/ow_011.html

bumping this to top also

mosh

RockinHarry · Post by **RockinHarry** » Tue Feb 20, 2001 1:22 pm

А не забывать наших российских товарищей!

http://www.translate.ru/eng/erre.asp

is needed here:
http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=eastfront&id=30&err=2&list

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skukko · Post by **skukko** » Wed Feb 28, 2001 8:23 pm

http://rkka.domainvalet.com/h-tacts.htm

sovjet armor tactics against Tigers and stugs. Also some nice pics and great attitude

FWH-Odin · Post by **FWH-Odin** » Wed Feb 28, 2001 10:31 pm

Deserves a bump... goldmine of info!

Panzer Capta · Post by **Panzer Capta** » Wed Feb 28, 2001 11:24 pm

I find this to be a very useful document......"Handbook On German Military Forces" (Chapter on German Tactics).

It can be found at:
http://hpssimulations.com/support/customfiles.htm#Miscellaneous

It is downloadable too.