The Combat History of the 23rd Panzer Division in World War II Paperback – Illustrated, March 21, 2012

Typical of all the books in this series, plenty of photos from the unit's veterans, plenty of rare photos you're not going to see anywhere else, a literal day-by-day playbook of the division's activities, losses, and actions, a whole lot of maps, and pretty much everything one could hope to know about the very busy and very unique 23rd Panzer Division. It's a huge book and I certainly wish I could've gotten one of the original hardbacks, but they're long out of print and extremely expensive now, so, finally went with getting the paperback simply because I gave up trying to afford the hard copy.Outstanding resource for German armor enthusiasts - if you're not a German armor enthusiast, then you're not going to care for this, but if you are, you'll be looking at this one for a long time and refer back to it forevermore. More than well worth the money.

It’s a great detailed book with lots of excellent photos of the 23rd Panzer Division. A good resource for a more in-depth examination of the Russian Front. That said, clearly the author exaggerates the various success of the division. Reading the book one wonders how the Russians were able to win the war. Russian tanks seem useless against the Germans apparently …half the Tanks of the whole Russian army are destroyed by this division. Good grief

what a great book, it telling you as if you were part of the 23rd panzer div. great pics, the Russians were never close to quality , but had them in quantity !

A military history buff will be engrossed with Ernst Rebentisch's The Combat History of the 23rd Panzer Division. The book is a meticulously researched account of the division's history from its formation in France in 1941 until the end of WW II in May, 1945. In addition to the harrowing accounts of battles, the book will impress the reader with the brilliant staff work associated with keeping these divisions on the move over enormous distances.

An excellent work on the 23rd Panzer (Armored) Division. This unit took part in the attempt by the Germans to relieve the trapped 6th Army in Stalingrad, and subsequently remained in the Southern part of Russia, fighting rearguard and defensive actions as the Germans retreated West. It also conducted limited counter-attacks through-out its withdrawal. Maps are pretty good although they lack any detail of the terrain.Good account of a mostly unknown (to American readers) German unit. This division had assigned to it half (12 guns) of the self-propelled 150mm Infantry Guns built on the Panzer III chassis. The other half of the production disappeared into Stalingrad. Provides a good idea of the problems the Germans had in Russia; and an indication of the problems the Soviets had in pushing the Germans off of Russian territory from 1942-45.Good book on the Eastern Front in WWII.Recommended reading.

long read, a lot of detail good book.

I own several Stackpole paperback reprints of JJ Fedorowicz titles and they are all printed on non-glossy paper as expected. To my surprise, this one is different, each and every page (526 p.p.) is printed on glossy paper. As a result, the pictures in the book look very sharp and clear. Apart from the paperback, the quality of this book is exactly the same as its hardcover original. Just for this, it is well worth the money already.

This book meets a certain standard design "style" for works on the subject of WW2 military action. It's got TONS of pictures, many new to me, and that's the major selling point. Other than that, the text is written in a boring, dry, monotone and consists primarily of bone-dry accounts of unit actions which could be drawn straight from action reports that battalion commanders would send up the chain of command to regiment. (Maybe most were!) Factual, somewhat informative but---entertaining.... not so much.This is a "style", like I said, and as a rule the more crammed a book of this sort is with pictures the less the text is worth perusing. Not sure why but it often amounts to an "either/or" situation. The flip side is that some of the most informative, intriguing and entertaining books on WW2 have a dearth of useful photos and maps.FYI, my big gripe about maps in many history books is that they look to have been drawn and inserted "after the fact" by people who had nothing to do with the book and didn't even read it. That's why when the text mentions a battle or action in some specific obscure hamlet, odds are if you look for that hamlet on the nearest map, it won't be found. Alternately, the map will be full of place names that appear nowhere in the text.But this is a gripe for another review!