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Death of the Leaping Horseman

Jason D. Mark

The gripping book about a panzer division and its battles in the shattered streets of Stalingrad
In Death of the Leaping Horseman: 24. Panzer-Division in Stalingrad, the untold story of 24. Panzer-Division’s savage fighting on Stalingrad’s outskirts – and in the devastated ruins of the city itself – is revealed in a detailed day-by-day account. Beginning in the heady days of the victorious march toward Stalingrad in August 1942, the book follows the Division into Stalingrad’s suburbs as it is slowly and inexorably sucked into the fiery crucible that was Stalingrad. Panzer losses and casualties increased daily until finally, after three months of draining combat, the Division was reduced to a battlegroup consisting of a couple of panzers and a few hundred men.

• 560 pages
• A5 format
• 210 photos – many never before seen
• More than 80 maps and aerial photographs
• 10 appendices
• Glossary and index.

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Photos
The book contains 210 photos drawn from official archives, private collections and the veterans themselves, most of them never being seen before. The veterans' photos are particularly noteworthy for their uncompromising honesty in depicting the violent face of war.

Maps
The course of the Division's combat actions can be followed on 86 aerial photos and maps. All the maps and overlays for the aerial photos were specially commissioned for this book. Some maps were also sourced from divisional war diaries. [Biographies]

Biographies
The book contains a biography for every officer that served with the Division from June 1942 to January 1943 and contains details of their military careers such as promotions, decorations and transfers, and personal information such as date and place of birth, non-military interests and their eventual fates.

Eyewitness Accounts
Woven throughout the text are gripping eyewitness accounts gathered from various sources: from regimental histories, from diaries, from letters and from interviews with the veterans themselves. The unemotional language of official war diaries is brutally contrasted by these accounts.

Text
The story of the Division's battle in Stalingrad is based upon the official war diaries of 6. Armee, 4. Panzer-Armee, XXXXVIII. Panzerkorps, 79. Infanterie-Division and 24. Panzer-Division itself. Written in a detailed day-by-day style, each combat action of the Division is fully explored utilising every piece of available information, and is finished off with comprehensive lists of casualties, decorations and enemy losses.