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50 • German Wehrmacht in WWII
from his personal family collection),
and twenty war maps drawn by
Bayerlein, make this book a valuable
addition to a military or biographical
collection.
Size: 81/2”x11” • over 340 black and
white and color photos • 304pp.
ISBN: 0-7643-1866-7 • hard • $59.95
Bayerlein: After Action Reports
of the Panzer Lehr Division
Commander From D-Day to the
Ruhr P.A. Spayd and Gary Wilkins.
Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein,
Commander of the Panzer Lehr
Division, wrote twenty manuscripts
while interred as a U.S. Army
prisoner of war from April 1945 until
his release from captivity two years
later. All of Bayerlein’s manuscripts
are presented here, compiled into
a chronological narrative of his
experiences with his Panzer Lehr
Division from the Allied Invasion of
Normandy to his surrender of the LIII
Armeekorps in the Ruhr pocket in
the last days of World War II.
Size: 81/2”x11” • over 170 b/w
photos • 216pp.
ISBN: 0-7643-2342-3 • hard • $59.95
The Private Afrikakorps Photograph
Collection of Rommel’s
Chief-of-Staff Generalleutnant
Fritz Bayerlein P.A. Spayd & Fritz
Dittmar-Bayerlein. Presented here is
the private Afrikakorps photograph
collection of Rommel’s second in
command, Generalleutnant Fritz
Bayerlein. Over 200 photos, showing
personalities, battle scenes, behind
the front line rest periods, and
non-battle scenery such as a tour
of ancient ruins with Rommel are
featured. Retrace Bayerlein’s steps
and the campaigns across the desert
sands – an undiscovered perspective
on the legacy of the vaunted DAK.
Size: 11”x81/2” • over 200 b/w and
color photos • 176pp.
ISBN: 0-7643-2065-3 • hard • $49.95
Generalfeldmarschall Fedor
von Bock: The War Diary 1939-
1945 Klaus Gerbert. The Von Bock
memoirs allow the reader to see the
entire drama of the Second World
War through the eyes of one of
Germany’s most important military
commanders. After the attacks on
Poland and Western Europe, von
Bock became Commander-in-Chief
of Army Group Center which carried
out the main drive on Moscow
during Operation Barbarossa and
brought the Red Army to the verge
of collapse in the great battles of
encirclement.
Size: 6”x9” • 62 b/w photos • 640pp.
ISBN: 0-7643-0075-X • hard • $39.95
Tiger Ace: The Life Story of
Panzer Commander Michael
Wittmann Gary L. Simpson. The
first comprehensive study of the
legendary Panzer commander.
Though there have been numerous
articles on Wittmann, none have
come close to understanding the
scope of his life and combat experiences.
Wittmann’s military exploits
stand out from all the rest, as his
Sturmgeschutz III and Tiger I crews
succeeded in destroying 138 enemy
tanks and 132 anti-tank guns and
field artillery pieces.
Size: 73/4”x101/2” • 77 b/w photos
• 400pp.
ISBN: 0-88740-526-6 • hard • $39.95
Joachim Peiper: A Biography of
Himmler’s SS Commander Jens
Westemeier. In this new historical
investigation, Westemeier portrays
the rise and fall of an SS war
criminal, 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
the first complete picture of Joachim
Peiper.
Size: 81/2”x11” • over 160 b/w
photos • 288 pp. • hard
ISBN: 978-0-7643-2659-2 • $59.95
My Commando Operations: The
Memoirs of Hitler’s Most Daring
Commando Otto Skorzeny. The
memoirs of the legendary Skorzeny
appear here in its first unabridged
English edition. Skorzeny’s fame
began with the successful raid to
free Benito Mussolini from the Gran
Sasso, Italy in 1943. His elite commandos
surprised Italian guards in a
daring daytime raid. Hitler presented
Skorzeny with the Knight’s Cross for
this operation. Not only is this raid
explained in minute detail, many
of Skorzeny’s previously unknown
operations in all European and
Russian theatres of World War II are
given in detailed accounts.
Size: 6”x9” • 16 pp. of photos • 496pp.
ISBN: 0-88740-718-8 • hard • $39.99
SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto
Weidinger: Knight’s Cross with
Oakleaves and Swords SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment
4 “Der
Führer” Mark C. Yerger. Among the
best field officers of the Waffen-SS,
he graduated from SS officer school
and served throughout the war.
This fully revised and expanded
edition of his authorized biography
provides a wealth of information for
the historian and military collector.
Lavishly illustrated with many never
before seen photos, the volume
covers Weidinger’s military career
and life in complete detail.
Size: 81/2”x11” • over 130 b/w
photos, documents • 96pp.
ISBN: 0-7643-1169-7 • soft • $24.95
SS-Sturmbannführer Ernst
August Krag: Träger des Ritterkreuzes
mit Eichen-laub
Kommandeur SS-Sturmgesch‚tzabteilung
2/SS-Panzer-
Aufklärung-sabteilung 2 “Das
Reich”Mark C. Yerger. A close look
at one of the elite troops’ most
decorated officers. Examining his
career from the pre-war armed SS
to 1945, the detailed text covers
his entire wartime career including
accounts of the combats resulting
in his awards. Details of his personal
assault gun, numerous camouflage
uniform shots, award presentations
and Krag with other famous officers
of “Das Reich.” English text also
presented in German.
Size: 81/2”x11” • b/w photos, documents
• 64pp.
ISBN: 0-7643-0049-0 • soft • $19.95
The War Diaries of a Panzer
Soldier: Erich Hager with the
17th Panzer Division on the
Russian Front • 1941-1945 Edited
by Garden & Andrew. This book is a
unique personal account of the war
on the Russian Front, written using
the diaries and photos of Hager who
served in the 39th Panzer Regiment,
17th Panzer Division throughout the
war in Russia.
Size: 81/2”x11” • over 370 color/bw
images • 240 pp. • hard
ISBN: 978-0-7643-3514-3 • $59.99
2000 Quotes from Hitler’s 1000-
Year Reich French L. MacLean.
Inside this book – the first of its
kind devoted solely to Nazi Germany
– are quotations from 289 men and
five women in the Third Reich. All
quoted in the work are described in
concise biographies. With all quotations
documented and footnoted,
and many put into historical context,
this is an easy to use valuable
resource for all students of WWII
history, writers and researchers of
military, political and Holocaust
subjects.
Size: 6”x9” • over 100 bw images •
hard • 480pp.
ISBN: 978-0-7643-2786-5 • $29.95
Operational Histories,
Battles
Scorched Earth: The Russian-
German War 1943-1944 Paul
Carell. The classic! This edition of
Paul Carrell’s eastern front study
picks up where Hitler Moves East
left off. Beginning with the battle of
Kursk in July 1943, Carell traverses
the vast expanse of the Russian War,
from the siege of Leningrad and the
fierce battles of the northern front,
to the fourth battle of Kharkov, and
the evacuation of the Crimea, a
withdrawal forbidden by Hitler. The
book ends in June of 1944 when
the Soviet Armies reach the East
Prussian frontier.
Size: 6”x9” • photos, maps • 600pp.
ISBN: 0-88740-598-3 • hard • $39.95
Foxes of the Desert: The Story of
the Afrikakorps Paul Carell. Here
for the first time from the German
viewpoint and with a great deal of
hitherto unpublished material is the
complete story of one of the most
bitterly fought, exciting campaigns
in modern warfare. As a result
of personal interviews with over
a thousand combatants, tireless
reading, and painstaking research,
Carell has skillfully blended a mass
of new and exciting information into
a dramatic and completely authentic
narrative.
Size: 53/4”x81/2” • b/w photos,
maps • 370pp.
ISBN: 0-88740-659-9 • hard • $29.95
Invasion! They’re Coming! The
German Account of the D-Day
Landings and the 80 Days’ Battle
for France Paul Carell. A revised and
updated edition of Paul Carell’s great
classic. Carell takes into account
the most recent results of historical
research, especially the successful
allied deception effort achieved by
agents, phoney radio transmissions
and sophisticated disinformation
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