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Sort by:          Product     Price      Default     see details A Flawed Genius Field Marshal Walter Model A Critical Biography M Stein During World War Two, Walter Model rose to the highest ranks. In the campaigns in Poland and France he was Chief of Staff of a Corps and later of an Army. His first troop command was a Panzer division during the initial phase of the war against Russia. In the winter of 1941 he rose to corps command, a few weeks later he became commander in chief of 9th Army. As of 1944 he assumed command of Army Groups. In the East, he commanded two of the three Army Groups simultaneously and was also responsible for coordination with the third Army Group, making him, in practice, Supreme Commander East. He was then named Supreme Commander West and commanded Army Group B until the end. Chapter eight is a detailed account of Model's active involvement in the worst war crimes. Chapter nine deals with Model's increasingly absurd orders of the day, some of which can cast doubt on his sanity. Chapter ten deals with courts martial convened by him and shows how he was part of the increasing perversion of military justice. The last chapter 'Conclusion' is an analysis of the many aspects of Model's personality. 304 pages approx 20 photos, 5 maps. Available Price: £29.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details BAYERLEIN FROM AFRIKAKORPS TO PANZER LEHR The Life of Rommel’s Chief-of-Staff Generallieutnant Fritz Bayerlein P.A. Spayd This book is the first and only comprehensive biography of the life of General-leutnant Fritz Bayerlein. Erwin Rommel’s former Chief-of-Staff and commander of the elite Panzer Lehr Division during World War II. His experiences with Guderian in the invasion of Poland, France and Russia, along with North Africa, Hungary, Normandy and the Ruhr cover six years of intense war. During the Russian winter of 1943-1944, Bayerlein commanded the famous Berlin-Brandenburg 3rd Panzer Division. Officers and soldiers describe his battle experiences and provide valuable insight into the character and personality of this highly unusual panzer general. In addition, Spayd has edited many of the military manuscripts, articles and correspondence Bayerlein wrote which serve as the backbone of many of the chapters. The author also had the cooperation and help of Beayerlein's nephew. This is the first in a multi-volume work planned on Bayerlein and is packed with photos, most previously unpublished. 288pp. over 340 b/w & colour photos. 20 maps. LARGE FORMAT Price: £49.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details BLACK EDELWEISS A Memoir of Combat By A Soldiers Of The Waffen-SS J.Voss A compelling and unique memoir of service with the SS Mountain Infantry Regiment “Reinhard Heydrich”, part of 6th Mountain Division “Nord”. The author describes his participation in the little known war fought in the Far North of the Eastern Front, in Karelia and Finland. Additionally he recalls his service againts the US forces in the Vosges mountains, and in the Saar-Moselle Triangle in 1945. 240pp. 6 maps some photos. Card covers. Price: £21.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Eastern Inferno The Journals of a German Panzerjager on the Eastern Front 1941-43 Edited by Christine Alexander This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier Hans Roth who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before. After suffering through a horrible winter against apparently endless Russian reserves, his division went on the offensive again, this time on the northern wing of “Case Gelb,” the German drive toward Stalingrad In these journals, attacks and counterattacks are described in “you are there” detail, as if to keep himself sane, knowing that his honest accounts of the horrors in the East could never pass through Wehrmacht censors. When the Soviet counteroffensive of winter 1942 commences, his unit is stationed alongside the Italian 8th Army, and his observations of its collapse, as opposed to the reaction of the German troops sent to stiffen its front, are of special fascination. These journals, include original maps, some of which Roth himself helped compose, were recently discovered by his descendants, who arranged for the translation. Incredible first-hand account of the horrific war Germany waged in Russia. 264pp. 16pp. photo section Price: £19.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details FOR GERMANY THE OTTO SKORZENY MEMOIRS. Bender publication edited by Craig W.H. Luther, Ph.D. & Hugh Page Taylor Before Skorzeny died he personally entrusted Bender Publishing with the formidable task of producing the most detailed, up-dated and best\r\nillustrated version of his incredible life story. After painstaking research into the text and a hunt for unpublished illustrations, the ultimate story of Scarface Skorzeny, the most\r\ndangerous man in Europe and Hitler's commando extraordinary is the most complete book to be published. This is likely to be the last word on this larger than life personality, one of the great characters of World War II. 528pp. 248 photos Price: £37.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details GENERALFIELDMARSCHALL VON BOCK THE WAR DIARY 1939-1945 The von Block memoirs allows the reader to see the entire drama of the WWII through the eyes of one of Germany’s important military commanders. 640pp. 62 photos Price: £34.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details HOT MOTORS COLD FEET Helmut Günther Personal recollections of the author’s service with a motorcycle battalion of the SS-Division “Reich” during the early days of the Russian campaign. A revealing look at what it was really like to serve in the original SS division during 1940/41. His story is a rivetting account , as he and his comrades manhandle their 600cc BMW and NSU motorcycles through some of the roughest terrain and toughest combat imaginable. Many of the officers the author served with, such as Klingenberger and Tychsen, later became well-known SS commananders. 267pp. 100 photos Price: £35.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Joachim Peiper A New Biography of Himmler's SS Commander Jens Westemeier In this new historical investigation, the author portrays the rise and fall of Joachim Peiper, and demolishes persistent myths of a Nazi icon. Using primary sources and personal interviews, a compelling image of the SS colonel emerges. The result is a highly readable and scholarly account with complete picture of Joachim Peiper. Now, a previously little understood Waffen-SS icon comes to life in a book that is at once an important contribution for the understanding of World War II history, as well as the place of the Waffen-SS in Hitler's Third Reich. 240pp. over 160 photos. Large format Price: £49.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Jungvolk The Story of a Boy Defending Hitler's Reich W.Gehlen & D.Gregory This is the wartime memoir of a boy named Will, who happened to be the nephew of the head of Nazi Germany’s intelligence agency, Foreign Armies East. After reading this book, the reader will wonder who had the most exciting time during World War II. The author, only 10 years old when the war began, became a helper at the local Luftwaffe flak battery, fetching ammunition. It was exciting work for Will (a member of the “Jungvolk”) and by the end of the war he had become expert at judging attacks. As fighter raids increased in frequency he noted that the pilots became less skilled. In this book Gehlen, provides an intimate glimpse of the chaos, horror and black humor of life just behind the front lines. As seen through the eyes of a child, who was expert in aircraft identification and bomb weights, food-rationing and tank types, one encounters a view of life inside Hitler’s wartime Reich that is both fascinating and rare. 352pp. 16pp photos/maps Price: £20.00 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details OTTO SKORZENY MY COMMANDO OPERATIONS The unbridged memoirs of the legendary Skorzeny. Includes his successful raid to free Mussolini which is explained in minute detail plus his other operations in Europe and Russia. 496pp. photos Price: £29.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Panzer Gunner: In Action With 25th Panzer Regiment, 7th Panzer Division 1944/45 Bruno Friesen There are few memoirs available of German Panzer crews that focus on the climactic last 12 months of the war on the Eastern Front, 1944-45. The bulk of the book is a detailed account of the author's training, and his subsequent service with 25th Panzer Regiment, part of 7th Panzer Division. As the title suggests, Bruno Friesen served as a gunner aboard, initially, Panzer IVs, before crewing the lesser-known Jagdpanzer IV tank hunter. The author provides a fantastic amount of information about these two vehicles, and how the crews actually fought in battle with them. This kind of 'hands-on' detail has almost never been available before, particularly such extensive information concerning the characteristics and combat performance of the Jagdpanzer IV. If one wants to know how German tank crews fought the Soviets in the last year of the war, then this book provides an outstanding account, containing material simply not found elsewhere. 264pp. c 50 photos, ills, maps Price: £24.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Reinhard Heydrich the Biography Volume 1 Road To War Max Williams & Ulric Volume 1 details Heydrichs life from birth to the outbreak of the Second World War). 168pp. 275 photos. large format Price: £29.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Reinhard Heydrich the Biography Volume 2 Enigma Max Williams & Ulric details the life of Heydrich from the beginning of the Second World War, his involvement in the Jewish question and posting as acting ’Reichsprotector’ for Bohemia-Moravia. Leading through until Heydrich’s assassination in 1942, his ’State Funeral’ and continuing with the precarious life of his wife Lina and their family until her death in 1985. 272pp. 500 photos & Ills. Large format Price: £39.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details THE TIGER PROJECT BOOK TWO HORST KRONKE SCHWERE PANZER (TIGER) ABTEILUNG 505 This second volume edited by D.R. Ritter As with the first book in this series covering the experiences of Alfred Rubbel, this second book is the story Horst Krönke. The story combines the experiences of Krönke with approximately 400 photographs (most which are unpublished), hand-drawn maps, and original documents, to tell the story of a veteran of Germany’s elite panzerwaffe and feared Tiger tanks. His initial experience was in training with Panzer Ersatz Abteilung 5. From there he was assigned to Panzer Regiment 6, of the 3rd Panzer Division and experienced the opening of the war in Russia. Krönke was in action on the Eastern Front through the end of 1942 at which time he was sent back to Germany to attend officer cadet and then officer’s schools. Upon his return to the front and Panzer Regiment 6 he was sidetracked by an old comrade and was incorporated into schwere Panzer Abteilung 503. At that point Horst was introduced to the new Tiger tank and served with a Tiger unit, transferring to schwere Panzer Abteilung 505 to serve with his brother, until the end of the war. 224pp. over 400 photos, maps. LARGE FORMAT Price: £39.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details The War Diaries Of A Panzer Soldier - 17th Panzer Division On The Russian Front Edited david garden & kenneth Andrew Erich Hager served with the 17TH Panzer Divison 1941/1945. Hager as a company commander's tank radio operator. During this time he kept diaries. He also took many personal photos of comrades and vehicles many of which are included in this book. Hager's material provides a tremendous insight into the war on the Russian Front from a front line soldier's perspective. 240pp. over 370 colour & b/w images. Large format Price: £49.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Twilight Of The Gods A Swedish Waffen-SS Volunteer's memoir Thorolf Hillblad editor A new re-print edition of this classic work. first-hand account of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front. Written in an exciting and direct style that is guaranteed to grab and hold the reader’s attention. Contains much new information on the personnel and actions of 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division Nordland. 144pp. 16 b/w photos, 1 map. hardback edition Price: £19.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Two Soldiers, Two Lost Fronts German War Diaries of the Stalingrad and North Africa Campaigns Don A. Gregory & Wilhelm R. Gehlen This book is built around two recently discovered war diaries—one by a member of the 23rd Panzer Division which served under Manstein in Russia, and the other by a member of Rommel’s AfrikaKorps. Together, along with detailed timelines and brief overviews, they comprise a fascinating “you are there” look at the German side of World War II. The stories are told primarily in the first person present tense, as events occurred, and without the benefit (or liability) of postwar reflection. 288pp. 16pp photos Price: £19.99 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart