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Panzer Division: The Mailed Fist (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: Weapons book No. 2)

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"Confident in the knowledge that they had beaten the German Army to a standstill in 1918, the armies of Western Europe once more came to grips w ith their old enemy in May 1940 - and within a few days lay prostrate before a numerically inferior but technically superior and revolutionary weapon - the Panzer Division."

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adult
Length
short · 160 pages

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