While the Panzer I and II are not as famous as the German tanks
produced later in the Second World War, they played a vital role in
Hitler's early blitzkrieg campaigns and in the Nazi rearmament
programme pursued, at first in secret, by the Nazi regime during
the 1930s. Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history of their
design, development and wartime service is an ideal introduction to
them. Both panzers saw combat during the invasions of Poland and
France, the Low Countries and Scandinavia during 1939-40. Although
by the time the Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the
Panzer I had been virtually phased out of service, in the form of
self-propelled guns they continued to see combat well into 1943.
The Panzer II was also phased out with the panzer regiments in late
1943, yet it remained in action on secondary fronts and, as the
self-propelled Marder II anti-tank gun and Wespe artillery variant,
it saw active service with the panzer and panzer grenadier
divisions until the end of the war. The Panzer I and II were the
precursors of the formidable range of medium and heavy tanks that
followed-the Panzer III and IV and the Panther and Tiger-and this
book is a fascinating record of them.
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