The history of military forces, artefacts, personalities and techniques of warfare Famously, at the outbreak of World War II it was the German Army alone that had successfully integrated tanks, motorized infantry, artillery and support services into divisions truly capable of mobile offensive warfare. This was the ground element of the 'Blitzkrieg' that rolled over first Poland, then most of Western Europe in 1939-40, and which almost reached Moscow in 1941. This book traces the evolving organization and armament of the mobile infantry arm - first motorized, and later partly armoured - throughout the war, in Western Europe, North Africa, Italy and on the Eastern Front Including highly detailed tables of divisional allocation and front-line deployment, it covers the development of motorized Rifles regiments within the Panzer Divisions into Panzergrenadier units, and also that of Light and Motorized Infantry Divisions into Panzer and finally Panzergrenadier Divisions. In parallel, it describes their evolving uniforms and insignia, illustrated with photographs and eight detailed colour plates. Book jacket.