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StuG III Brigade 191, 1940 1945 - The Buffalo Brigade in Action in the Balkans, Greece and from Moscow to the Caucasus and the Crimea (Hardcover)
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StuG III Brigade 191, 1940 1945 - The Buffalo Brigade in Action in the Balkans, Greece and from Moscow to the Caucasus and the Crimea (Hardcover)
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Based on their experiences during the First World War, the
Reichswehr decided that the infantry support gun of the future
should be an armoured, motorized vehicle with an effective calibre
of cannon: the Sturmgeschutz III. The weapon was used in the 'fire
brigade role' at hotspots along the Front, where it was much feared
by enemy forces. This illustrated volume tells the tale of Brigade
191, aka the 'Buffalo Brigade', who used the Sturmgeschutz III as
they took part in Operation Barbarossa in the Ukraine, saw action
during the fight for Greece in 1941 and were deployed to the areas
of heaviest fighting in the campaign against the Soviet Union. This
began with the infantry advance from Ukraine to Moscow (1941): then
to Voronezh, Kursk, the Caucasus and Kuban (1942), then the Kertsch
Peninsula and the Crimea (1943-1944), before they were finally
evacuated from Sevastopol into Romania by naval lighters. On the
South-east Front (the retreat through the Balkans), the Brigade
fought its way into Austria and was still fighting on the last day
of the war to keep a corridor open. Keen to write an account
recording the tactical significance of the Sturmgeschutz III, while
surviving members of Brigade 191 also wished for a cohesive
documentary record of the war, Bork set about gathering military
records and literature, as well as interviewing as many ex-Brigade
men as possible, in order to bring this detailed account into
being.
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