Looks at the development of the Panzer concept during World War II, and the building and deployment of the Corps through the eyes of those who fought in it, and of those who fought against it.

Introduction -- 1. The plains of Poland -- 2. Tanks and tank tactics -- 3. The making of the Corps -- 4. The end of the phoney war -- 5. Into the desert -- 6. Operation Barbarossa: the Panzers turn east -- 7. Soviet superiority -- 8. Tigers in Normandy -- 9. Last gasp in the Ardennes -- 10. Panzer kaput -- Afterword -- Further reading -- Index -- Picture credits.