Kurt Knispel became the most successful tank ace of the Second World War, credited with 168 confirmed tank kills on the Eastern Front. Beginning as a gunner in the Panzer IV and later serving in ...

The Waffen-SS armored divisions became some of the most feared formations of World War II, fighting in the largest and most brutal tank battles on the Eastern Front and in Normandy. From the massive ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The tank-destroyer force was the Army’s response to the wild successes of German armor in Poland and France in 1939 and 1940. Panzer divisions would concentrate more ...

Key Point: Kursk was not the turning point of the war. The title of Martin Caidin’s 1974 history of the Battle of Kursk is still evocative, with its imagery of Nazi Germany’s vaunted Tiger tanks in ...