
Smashing Hitler's Panzers
The Defeat of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division in the Battle of the Bulge
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Narrated by:
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Paul Brion
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By:
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Steven Zaloga
In his riveting new book, Steven Zaloga describes how American foot soldiers faced down Hitler's elite armored spearhead - the Hitler Youth Panzer Division - in the snowy Ardennes forest during one of World War II's biggest battles, the Battle of the Bulge.
The Hitler Youth division was assigned the mission of the Führer's Ardennes offensive: Capture the main highway to the primary objective, Antwerp, whose seizure Hitler believed would end the war. Had the Germans taken the Belgian port, it would have cut off the Americans from the British and perhaps led to a second, more devastating Dunkirk. In Zaloga's careful reconstruction, a succession of American infantry units - the 99th Division, the 2nd Division, and the 1st Division (the famous Big Red One) - fought a series of battles that denied Hitler the best roads to Antwerp and doomed his offensive. American G.I.s - some of them seeing combat for the very first time - had stymied Hitler's panzers and grand plans.
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Eye opening
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The narration isn't great. The main distraction is pronunciation of very common terms with foreign accent/variant of the word. For example, he pronounces Bastogne in a French way but clumsily so its annoying. Grenadier is the most annoying though since its so common. He pronounces it Gren-ah-di-aire and after so quick investigation, the German pronunciation is what I've been accustomed too. So I have no idea why he is butchering this word. Also, spelling out Pzkfpw IV is annoying but perhaps we can fault the author if he spelled it out that way each time instead of just letting it be Panzer IV.
Nice detail of small unit action
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Average
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I say that the research seems Rock solid and I would happily keep this around to check older works on the particulars of the actions of the 99th, 1st, and 2nd infantry divisions.
the author probably would have been better served to have included more personal details about the characters where he has that information, because when he dove into yes those biographical details the book was better..
Could Be Better
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Meticulously researched – a scholarly work – but wish there were more personal stories
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Armee!!! Just call it army.
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