Iron Cross

Description

During the summer of 1942, the German army was back on the move. At the end of the previous year's Operation Barbarossa, the German army could see the spires of the Kremlin in Moscow.

In June 1942, one year after the start of Barbarossa, the Germans launched a new operation, Case Blau, aiming to cut off and capture the valuable oil fields of the Caucasus. The Germans needed the oil, but so too did the Soviet Union and Hitler hoped he could kill two birds with one stone. The operation was lead by the panzer divisions, as the other armies, mostly infantry divisions with some supporting panzer divisions, followed on securing the ground gained by the panzers and tackling difficult objectives, such as towns and cities. We follow these forces Iron Cross, from the panzer companies blitzing across the Steppe of Russia to the grizzled grenadier veterans on the bloody streets of Stalingrad.

Following Stalingrad, most German formations underwent some reorganisations and received new equipment, and that will all be covered in a later book. Iron Cross really zeroes in on the German Army in 1942 and early 1943. Use Iron Cross to build German Forces from 1942 to early 1943 on the Eastern Front.