Each recipient is presented in a capsule biography including date of birth, awarding of the various Knights Cross grades, and other particulars to rank and career. Each is also shown in a World War II era photograph.

Knights of the Wehrmacht Knight's Cross Holders of the Afrikakorps

Biographies & Memoirs

Franz Kurowski

Leaders & Notable People

Schiffer_Publishing

Each recipient is presented in a capsule biography including dates of birth, awarding of the various Knights Cross grades, and other particulars to rank and career. Each is also shown in a World War II era photograph.

Knights of the Wehrmacht: Knight's Cross Holders of the Fallschirmjäger

Schiffer Military History

Bridgehead Kurland is the exciting account of the little-known struggles of Heeresgruppe Kurland in the waning months of World War II. Although there were six separate attempts by the Red Army to crush the German forces in the Kurland Bridgehead in the Baltic, they held out against massively superior forces. Despite revisionist claims by the Soviets after the war, the fighting in Kurland resulted in the pinning of large numbers of forces and, ultimately, an unsuccessful campaign. Once again, Franz Kurowski has brought to life many fascinating aspects of an Eastern-Front campaign that has heretofore received little attention in the West. In addition to providing a strategic overview, including not only the ground forces but also the role of the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine, he provides an intimate "you-are-there" look into much of the fighting. Includes 70 pages of black and white photos and 15 pages of maps and illustrations.

Bridgehead Kurland: The Six Epic Battles of Heeresgruppe Kurland

J.J. Fedorowicz

Hard cover, small format (6 x 9 ), 545 pages with 300 black and white photographs, 24 (mostly full-page) maps and 20 detailed appendices. In September 1943 the Allies landed on the Italian mainland, the so-called soft underbelly of Europe. Their aim was to knock Italy out of the war and rapidly conquer the country. However, the Italian campaign was one of the toughest of the war. The Germans, under the inspired leadership of Albert Kesselring, mounted a tenacious and skillful defense in the mountainous terrain. Some of the most brutal battles of the Western Front were fought in Italy, most notably the battles for Cassino that lasted nearly six months. The German forces in Italy did not surrender until 2 May 1945 only 6 days before the end of the war in Europe. The author, Franz Kurowski, interviewed many of the German veterans of the Italian campaign, from the common soldier to high commanders, and numerous, dramatic personal accounts are featured. Most of these accounts are published here for the first time. All aspects of the battle are covered, including the operations of the Luftwaffe and the little known war at sea of the Kriegsmarine. There has been little, if anything, published in English on the German viewpoint of the Italian campaign.

Battleground Italy 1943-1945

History

Europe

J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, Inc.

This book details the combat experiences of 7 German infantry soldiers in World War 2: 1 Waffen SS; 1 Combat Engineer and 5 from the Army. Each soldier receives a separate chapter. Numerous exciting first-hand accounts are featured. In order to tell the real story of infantry combat the author personally interviewed either the soldiers featured or their former comrades. Also included are 160 black and white WW 2 period photographs and 2 maps.

Infanterie Aces 2

U-48

Franz Kurowsk

Pen & Sword Books Limited

Following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Germany was not permitted to build or operate submarines. However clandestine training onboard Finnish and Spanish submarines took place and U-boats were still built to German designs in Dutch yards. At the outset of the Second World War, Dönitz argued for a 300-strong U-boat fleet, since his force of 57 U-boats ‘could only inflict pin-pricks against British seaborne trade’. In August 1939, U-48 left Germany, commanded by ‘Vaddi’ Schultze, to take up a waiting position around England. It scored its first success on 5 September, when it torpedoed the British freighter Royal Sceptre, then the Winkleigh on 8 September. On both occasions – the first of many – Schultze showed himself to be a notable humanitarian: he addressed signals to Churchill giving positions of the sinkings so that crews could be saved. By 1 August 1941, U-48, the most successful boat of the Second World War, had sunk 56 merchant ships of 322,478 gross tons and one corvette. She was then transferred to the Baltic as a training boat. Schultze became commander of operation 3 U-Flotilla and later was appointed commander, II/Naval College Schleswig. He died in 1987 at the age of 78. U-48 was scuttled on 3 May 1945.

U-48: The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War

Frontline Books

The Panzer Lehr Division, a German armored division during World War II, was one of the most Elite units in the entire German Wehrmacht Heer. It was formed in 1943 from various units of elite training and demonstration troops stationed in Germany, to provide additional armored strength for resisting the anticipated Allied invasion of western Europe.

Elite Panzer Strike Force

PEN SWORD BOOKS

Die Funk-füchse

Dresden Februar 1945.

Tosa Verlagsgesellschaft

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