Böcker av Norbert Szamveber

On the Hungarian theater of war of the Eastern Front, the Soviet troops attempted to take Budapest repeatedly from the end of October 1944. However, the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Front forces only managed to encircle the Hungarian capital by the end of December 1944. The German troops, especially the battle groups of the Panzer Divisions and Panzergrenadier Divisions fought effective delaying combat. Dr. Norbert Számvéber, author of several books and studies on the armored warfare of WW2, describes and analyzes the fierce armored clashes in the first phase of the Budapest Operation in detail, based principally on archival sources.

The history of the Hungarian theatre of war from late August 1944 to the end of March 1945 is a special chapter of the history of the Eastern Front during World War II. Nonetheless, this was the first phase of a period of intense combat, as Adolf Hitler and the German High Command planned the relief of the Hungarian capital.

Days of Battle describes a hitherto neglected part of the military history of Hungary during World War II.

The book presents the detailed combat history of German Panzer-Abteilung 103 as part of the 3. Panzergrenadier-Division in Italy from September 1943 to August 1944 based on the almost unknown war diary of this unit. The Panzer-Abteilung 103 was fully equipped with Sturmgeschütz III assault guns. This is an impressive look at tactical-level events a