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Tiger Ace: The Life Story of Panzer Com- Heroes in Death: The von Blücher Brothers in the Stalingrad: The Death of the Ger- mander Michael Wittmann Gary Simpson. The Fallschirmjäger, Crete, May 1941. Adrian Nisbett. man Sixth Army on the Volga, 1942- fi rst comprehensive study of the legendary Panzer The life stories of the three von Blücher brothers,members 1943, Vol. 1: The Bloody Fall& Vol. commander. Though there have been numerous of the famed 1st Fallschirmjäger Regimen. who all died 2: The Brutal Winter Col. French L. articles on Wittmann, none have come close to during the battle for Heraklion airfi eld, Crete, on May MacLean. The fi rst published work to understanding the scope of his life and combat 20 & 21, 1941. Also described are paratroop training, detail the situation of every German experiences. Wittmann’s military exploits stand out the battle in which the brothers died, and the aftermath corps and division for every day of the from all the rest, as his Sturmgeschütz III and Tiger of their tragic deaths. The book is illustrated with more six-month Stalingrad campaign. This I crews succeeded in destroying 138 enemy tanks than 140 photographs, many from the von Blücher family two-volume set derives from the Sixth and 132 anti-tank guns and fi eld artillery pieces. and most never before published. Army daily operation reports and the Size: 7.75"x10.5" • 77 bw photos • 400pp. Size: 7"x10" • 141 photos • 176pp. German Army High Command (OKH) ISBN: 0-88740-526-6 • hard • $39.95 ISBN: 978-0-7643-4631-6 • hard cover • $35.00 situation maps (Lage Ost). Size: 7"x10" • 510 photos • 640pp. Joachim Peiper: A Biography of Himmler’s 2000 Quotes from Hitler’s 1000-Year Reich French ISBN: 978-0-7643-4343-8 • hard • $69.99 SS Commander Jens Westemeier. In this new L. MacLean. Quotations from 289 men and fi ve women historical investigation, Westemeier portrays the in the Third Reich. All quoted in the work are described Stalingrad: The Defeat of the German 6th Army rise and fall of an SS war criminal, and demolishes in concise biographies. With all quotations documented Paul Carell. Carell sets his talents to discussing the persistent myths of a Nazi icon. Using primary and footnoted, and many put into historical context, this operations of the 6th Army from the 1942 German sources and personal interviews, a compelling is an easy to use valuable resource for all students of WWII summer offensive, through the fi ghting in the streets image of the SS colonel emerges. The result is history, writers and researchers of military, political and of Stalingrad, to the fi nal defeat in January 1943. a highly readable and scholarly account with Holocaust subjects. Size: 7"x10" • 190 color/bw photos • 352pp. the fi rst complete picture of Joachim Peiper. Size: 6"x9" • 100 bw photos • 480pp. ISBN: 978-0-88740-469-6 • hard • $39.99 Size: 8.5"x11" • 160 bw photos • 288pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-2786-5 • hard • $29.95 ISBN: 978-0-7643-2659-2 • hard • $59.95

OPERATIONAL HISTORIES & BATTLES My Commando Operations: The Memoirs of German Panzers on the Offensive: Russian Hitler’s Most Daring Commando Otto Skorzeny . Scorched Earth: The Russian-German War 1943-44 Front, North Africa 1941-42 R. H. S. Stolfi . The The memoirs of the legendary Skorzeny in its fi rst un- Paul Carell. Carrell’s eastern front study picks up where acknowledged superiority of the German Army in battle abridged English edition. Skorzeny’s fame began with Hitler Moves East left off. Beginning with the battle of fi ghting is exemplifi ed by the offensives of 1939-42, the successful raid to free Benito Mussolini from the Gran Kursk in July 1943, Carell traverses the vast expanse of and this book combines description and interpretation Sasso, Italy, in 1943. Hitler presented Skorzeny with the the Russian War, from the and the of the advances of nine German panzer divisions to Knight’s Cross for this operation. Not only is this raid fi erce battles of the northern front, to the fourth battle of reveal extraordinary details of the great victories. explained in minute detail, many of Skorzeny’s previously Kharkov, and the evacuation of the Crimea, a withdrawal Size: 6"x9" • 8 bw photos/maps • 224pp. unknown operations in all European and Russian theatres forbidden by Hitler. The book ends in June of 1944 ISBN: 0-7643-1770-9 • hard • $35.00 of WWII are given in detailed accounts. Size: 6"x9" • 26 when the Soviet Armies reach the East Prussian frontier. bw photos • 496pp. ISBN: 0-88740-718-8 • hard • $39.99 Size: 6"x9" • 70 bw photos/maps • 600pp. ISBN: 0-88740-598-3 • hard • $39.95

SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen- Foxes of the Desert: The Story of the Afrikakorps Last Victory in Russia: The SS-Panzerkorps SS Theodor “Teddy" Wisch Markus Lippl. The life Paul Carell. Here for the fi rst time from the German and Manstein’s Kharkov Counteroffensive of Theodor Wisch, Waffen-SS General and Swords to viewpoint and with a great deal of hitherto unpublished - February-March 1943 George M. Nipe. The the Knight’s Cross holder told in great detail. A member material is the complete story of one of the most bitterly fi rst detailed and comprehensive account of of the LAH from its 1933 creation to the end of WWII, fought, exciting campaigns in modern warfare. As a result the Kharkov counteroffensive, the operations of he led some of its most famous combat elements and of personal interviews with over a thousand combatants, the SS divisions and the supporting actions of rose to command the division as successor to Sepp tireless reading, and painstaking research, Carell has Armeeabteilung Fretter-Pico and 1. Panzerarmee. Dietrich. Includes more than eighty illustrations, most skillfully blended a mass of new and exciting information Size: 8.5"x11" • 210 bw photos • 368pp. previously unpublished along with many of Wisch’s into a dramatic and completely authentic narrative. ISBN: 0-7643-1186-7 • hard • $59.95 surviving award documents. Size: 5.75"x8.5" • 70 bw photos/maps • 370pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 80 bw photos • 80pp. ISBN: 0-88740-659-9 • hard • $29.95 ISBN: 978-0-7643-4046-8 • soft • $24.99

SS-Obersturmbannführer : Invasion! They’re Coming! The German Account German Battle Tactics on the Russian Front Knight’s Cross with Oakleaves and Swords of the D-Day Landings and the 80 Days’ Battle 1941-45 Steven Newton. The tenacity of the Ger- SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 4 Der Führer for France Paul Carell. A revised and updated edition man Army in Russia from 1941-45, fi ghting against Mark C. Yerger. This fully revised and expanded of Carell’s great classic. Carell takes into account the overwhelming odds but refusing to disintegrate, has edition of Weidinger’s authorized biography most recent results of historical research, especially the fascinated readers for decades. Newton has retrieved, provides a wealth of information for the historian successful allied deception effort achieved by agents, retranslated, and annotated the detailed tactical and military collector. Lavishly illustrated with phoney radio transmissions and sophisticated disinfor- accounts of combat in Russia that German offi cers many never before seen photos, the volume mation operations, details of which have only recently provided their American captors after the war. covers Weidinger’s military career and life in been revealed, and which led to fateful false estimations Size: 6"x9" • maps • 320pp. complete detail. by Hitler and the German generals. ISBN: 0-88740-582-7 • hard • $24.95 Size: 8.5"x11" • 130 bw photos • 96pp. Size: 6"x9" • 70 bw photos/maps • 320pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1169-7 • soft • $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-88740-716-6 • hard • $35.00

SS-Sturmbannführer Ernst August Krag: Operation Barbarossa in Photos Paul Carell. Retreat from Leningrad: Army Group North Holder of the Knight’s Cross with Oak Renowned author’s photo album to accompany his 1944-45 Steven Newton. Most histories of the northern Leaves Kommandeur SS-Sturmgeschütz- defi nitive studies on the war in Russia Hitler Moves East sector of the Russian front concentrate on the siege abteilung 2/SS-Panzer-Aufklärungsabtei- and Scorched Earth. Over 570 photos from both German of Leningrad, and focus little attention on the heavy lung 2 “Das Reich” Mark C. Yerger. A close and Russian archives explore the entire campaign. fi ghting during the Wehrmacht’s withdrawl into the look at one of the elite troops’ most decorated Size: 7"x10" • 570+ color/bw photos • 460pp. Baltic countries. Retreat from Leningrad begins where offi cers. Examining his career from the pre-war ISBN: 0-88740-280-1 • hard • $49.95 those books end, with the massive January 1944 Soviet armed SS to 1945, the detailed text covers his offensive that was designed not only to break the siege entire wartime career including accounts of the completely but also to destroy Army Group North. combats resulting in his awards. Size: 6"x9" • maps • 328pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 35 bw photos • 64pp. ISBN: 0-88740-806-0 • hard • $24.95 ISBN: 0-7643-0049-0 • soft • $19.95

The War Diaries of a Panzer Soldier: Erich Barbarossa Unleashed: The German Blitz- Assault on Moscow 1941: The Offensive, The Hager with the 17th Panzer Division on the krieg through Central Russia to the Gates Battle, The Set-Back Werner Haupt. Detailed unit Russian Front • 1941-45 Edited by Garden & of Moscow June-December 1941 Craig W. H. operations and individual accounts make for absorbing Andrew. This book is a unique personal account Luther. The advance of German forces through central reading, and a rare chance for the reader to examine of the war on the Russian Front, written using Russia in the summer of 1941,with brief accounts of an early, yet very important, Russian front battle. the diaries and photos of Hager who served in the Battle of Moscow and winter battles into early Size: 6"x9" • 140 color/bw photos • 304pp. ISBN: 0-7643- the 39th Panzer Regiment, 17th Panzer Division 1942. Based on hundreds of veterans’ accounts, 0127-6 • hard • $35.00 throughout the war in Russia. archival documents and key literature, this is the Size: 8.5"x11" • 370 color/bw photos • 240pp. most detailed account to date of the German soldiers’ ISBN: 978-0-7643-3514-3 • hard • $59.99 experiences in Russia in 1941. Size: 7"x10" • 220 bw photos/maps • 808pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-4376-6 • hard • $59.99