We received the following press release.--RL

THE GERMAN ORDER OF BATTLE: PANZERS AND ARTILLERY IN WORLD WAR II
by George F. Nafziger, Greenhill Books, 1999, 463 pages, Hardbound, ISBN - 1-85367-350-5, $59.95

This work covers the organizational history of all the panzer divisions and brigades, the panzer grenadier divisions, the 1939 light divisions, the cavalry brigades and divisions, the sturmgeschuetz, jagdpanzer & panzerjaeger formations from 1944-1945, independent armored battalions, and every type of artillery formation that the Germans raised in World War II. It is a greatly expanded version of Volumes 1 and 3 of Dr. Nafziger's earlier work, GERMAN ORDER OF BATTLE IN WWII, containing nearly three times the data of those original volumes.

It covers the internal structure of these formations at many times during their history. Hundreds of very complete TO&Es are provided that display the organizational and weapon details down to the company level, listing the numbers of light machine guns and larger weapons. It has NO illustrations. If you want pictures of tanks there are plenty of other works to choose from on the market. It makes little mention of any division's operational history, battles or other combat related histories. It is purely a history of when the divisions were raised, how their structure was modified, when elements were destroyed and rebuilt, and technical details of the divisions' organizations. So, if you want to know when the 21st Panzer Division was equipped with nebelwerfer equipped half tracks, when the panther tanks were delivered to the various panzer divisions, which panzer divisions had Tiger tanks or Hornisse self propelled anti-tank guns attached to them, this is the work for you.

Also from George

THE CHINESE ARMY, THE GROWTH AND ORGANIZATION OF THE CHINESE ARMY FROM 1895 TO 1945
by George F. Nafziger, Softbound, $19.95, plus S&H

I never cease to be amazed at what can crawl out of a used book store and turned into something new and useful. Here it is, everything you never wanted to know about the regular Chinese army, from the army of the Dowager Empress to that of Chiang Kai-shek. There's even a bit of data on the Communist Chinese infantry divisions thrown in for good measure. Complete tables of organization for Chinese infantry divisions and breakdowns of officers and enlisted by title and function. The only weaknesses are that it contains nothing on the cavalry divisions, little on the equipment (which was probably a mystery to the Chinese as well) and no information on individual divisions. It is a broad overview of the entire army with detailed organizational structures for the Chinese divisions.

No, it doesn't do anything for the Boxer Rebellion, but it does provide details of the regular Chinese Army that fought the Germans at the end of the Boxer Rebellion.

It is currently in stock and available from The Nafziger Collection, www.infinet.com/~nafziger .

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