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Mit den Panzern in Ost und West (With the Armored Troops in the East and West) is a very interesting, well-illustrated Nazi book that is sub-titled “Reports of Experiences by Fellow Fighters from the Polish and French Campaigns in 1939 and 1940”. It contains first-hand accounts by Panzer crewmen of the German Armed Forces who were part of the Wehrmacht invasion of Poland in the fall of 1939 and the invasion of France in 1940. The material was assembled by Oberleutnant Dr. Paul Dierichs, the leader of a Nazi tank Propagandakompanie in cooperation with several war correspondents who traveled with the troops.

Mit den Panzern in Ost und West has overview maps as well as highly detailed maps of specific battles and is fully indexed in the back. It has a foreword by Generaloberst Heinz Wilhelm Guderian and was published for him by Volk und Reich Verlag 1942, and printed in Prague. This 79 year old Third Reich book is in nice used condition, no odor.

Each of the 3 to 5 page stories have the experiences of members of tank crews, radio men, a medical doctor and a medic, German General Freiherr von Esebeck and many others. Some were written by seasoned veterans, some by soldiers who experienced their first battle. The 7-¼ x 9-¾ inch 356-page softcover book has three sections containing 64 pages of black & white photographs of Nazi tanks in action, tank crews and regular soldiers, Luftwaffe airplanes, Hitler visiting the troops in Poland, huge Nazi coastal artillery guns in France, Nazi generals during map briefings and while visiting their men at the front, communication troops, Wehrmacht motorcycles, battle damage to bunkers, cities and even the beautiful Gothic cathedral of Amiens.