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A
Fascinating, Illustrated Reference Work that is a MUST for Historians and Militaria
Collectors…
Eichenlaubträger
1940-1945: The Holders of the Oak Leaves to the Knights’ Cross, Presented in Color in Period Photographs...
Alphabetically Arranged From A through Z in THREE VOLUMES!
By Fritjof Schaulen
Originally instituted by the King of Prussia in 1813 as an award for valor an the battlefield, and revived again for the wars of 1870 and 1914, the Iron Cross was reinstituted in 1939 as a wartime decoration for the new German Wehrmacht. Originally, the Knights’ Cross of the Iron Cross was the highest grade of this tradition-steeped award that could be conferred (according to the directive of September 1, 1939) for conspicuous courage under fire or for service that contributed substantially to the operations of German military forces. The continued success of German arms quickly made the need for issuing even higher-grades of this distinction glaringly apparent, and accordingly the “Oakleaves” to the Knights’ Cross of the Iron Cross - for which only Knight’s Cross holders were eligible - were instituted in 1940.
This
sumptuously illustrated, coffee-table sized, THREE-VOLUME work presents over 350
official color portrait- and candid photos of the most distinguished and highly
decorated German soldiers of the Second World War - the holders of the Oakleaves
to the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross - and provides short biographies of
the men who many military historians to this day consider the best soldiers of
their epoch. These books powerfully present the faces behind many names that
figure prominently in widely read unit- and campaign histories of the period, and as such constitute a “must-have” reference for anyone who has
ever studied that titanic conflict. Collectors of German Militaria will also
find much useful material in the large-format color close-ups featured in these
books, which provide an invaluable visual reference on the myriad variations of
uniforms, insignia and decorations in use during the period.
Eichenlaubträger,
Volume I: Abraham to Huppertz
Oakleaf-wearers from all branches and all ranks
of the German armed forces (with names beginning with the letters “A” through
“H”) are depicted, including:
Erich
Abraham / Horst Adameit / Karl
Allmendinger / Karl Baacke / Ernst-Günther
Baade / Franz Bäke / Heinz Bär / Erich Bärenfänger / Hansgeorg Bätcher /
Hermann Balck / Gerhard Barkhorn / Wilhlem Batz / Werner Baumbach /
Hermann-Heinrich Behrend / Otto Benzin / Hans-Henning Freiherr von Beust /
Johannes Blaskowitz / Heinrich Bleichrodt / Johannes Block / Günther
Blumentritt / Alwin Boerst / Heinrich Boigkt / Georg Bonk / Helmut Borchardt /
Erich Brandenburger / Albrecht Brandi / Josef Bregenzer / Hermann Breith / Fritz
Breithaupt / Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt / Albert Brux / Kurt Bühligen
/ Otto von Bülow / Rudolf von Bünau / Erich Buschenhagen / Kurt von der
Chevallerie / Georg Christiansen / Karl Decker / Leon Degrelle /
Otto Dessloch / Eduard Dietl / Josef „Sepp“ Dietrich / Bruno Dilley /
Karl Dönitz / Georg Dörffel / Joachim Domaschk / Hanns Dorr / Wilhelm Drewes /
Alfred Druschel / Maximilian Reichsfreiherr von Edelsheim / Wilhelm Eggemann /
Heinrich Ehrler / Theodor Eicke / Wlater Elflein / Gerhard Engel / Heinz-Otto
Fabian / Hermann Fegelein / Klaus Feldt / Erwin Fischer / Rudolf Flinzer /
Hermann Flörke / Werner Forst / Maximilian Fretter-Pico / Hans Freiherr von
Funke / Adolf Galland / Waldermar von Gazen / Herbert Otto-Gille / Adolf Glunz /
Günter Goebel / Karl Göbel / Hans Gollnick / Gordon Gollub / Alber Graf von
der Goltz / Walter Gorn / Fritz-Hubert Gräser / Hermann Graf / Anton Grasser /
Hartmann Grasser / Robert Ritter von Greim / Franz Greisbach / Alfred Grislawski
/ Horst Grossmann / Heinz Guderian / Reinhard Günzel / Robert Gysae / Josef
Harpe / Erich Hartmann / Walter Hartmann / Eduard Hauser / Richard Heidrich /
Ludwig Heilmann / Gotthard Heinrici / Joachim Helbig / Werner henke / Wilhelm
Herget / Traugott Herr / Hans-Joachim Herrmann / Carl Hilpert / Bruno Hinz /
Harald von Hirschfeld / Alfons Hitter / Friedrich Höhne / Gustav Hoehne /
Waletr Hoernlein / Heinrich Hoffmann / Hermann Hobeback / Heinrich Hogrebe /
Hermann Hohn / Friedrich Hossbach / Hermann Hoth / Dietrich Hrabak / Martin
Hrustak / Hans Hube / Konrad Hupfer / Hubert Huppert
Also
featured in this and each subsequent volume are color photos illustrating staff
conferences, parades and award ceremonies, as well as numerous color candid
shots of many of the Oakleaf-wearers at their front-line duty stations. Included
as an introduction to Volume I is a brief history of the Iron Cross and the Oak
Leaf motif in German military heraldry.
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Second
volume in the series presenting official color portrait photos and capsule
biographies of holders of the Oakleaves to the Knight’s Cross. Oakleaf-wearers
with names beginning with the letters “I” through “P” from all branches
of service and all ranks are depicted, including:
Also featured are color photos illustrating staff
conferences, parades and award ceremonies, as well as color candid shots of many
of the Oakleaf-wearers at their front-line duty stations.
Included
as an introduction to Volume II is a detailed discussion (illustrated with
high-quality color photos) of the physical characteristics of the different
types of Iron Cross and Knights’ Cross, the Honor Clasps of the Iron Cross and
the German Cross.
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Eichenlaubträger,
Volume III: Radusch to Zwernemann
Third
volume in the series presenting official color portrait photos and capsule
biographies of holders of the Oakleaves to the Knight’s Cross. Oakleaf-wearers
with names beginning with the letters “R” through “Z” from all branches
of service and all ranks are depicted, including:
Also
featured are color photos illustrating staff conferences, parades and award
ceremonies, as well as color candid shots of many of the Oakleaf-wearers at
their front-line duty stations.
Included
by way of introduction to Volume III is a detailed discussion (illustrated with
high-quality color photos) of other German state- and military decorations,
military awards, badges and campaign shields worn by the personnel of the German
Wehrmacht from 1939 to 1945.
Each
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Other Titles in the "History in Color Series" Include...
Führerhauptquartier
Wolfsschanze 1940-1945 (History in Color Series).
Arndt
Verlag, eds. Two
days after the beginning of Operation „Barbarossa“, Adolf Hitler and his
military staff arrived at the “Führer Headquarters” which had been
specially built for him in the Görlitzer Wood outside the East Prussian town of
Rastenburg. As the location from which the Führer would command Germany’s
vast and far-flung forces throughout most of the Second World War, the
“Wolf’s Lair” would bear witness to an endless procession of the Reich’s
most important military commanders and its most highly decorated fighting men;
the heads of state of Germany’s allies; and the most influential personalities
of the NSDAP. This sumptuous, large format volume presents hundreds of priceless
color photographs from the Walter Frentz archive - many never before pulished -
and provides us with a glimpse into the nerve center of the German war machine
during the most crucial phases of the Second World War. Presented in this volume
are numerous candid color photos of Führer situation conferences around the map
table (with Hitler surrounded by OKW and OKH staff officers and frontline
commanders); the Führer’s secretaries and his “family circle”; the
demonstration of new weapons to the Führer at the Rastenburg proving grounds
(including the new Tiger tank and the giant railway gun “Dora”); relaxed,
informal visits by top officials of State and Party; visits by foreign heads of
state (such as Rumania’s Marshal Antonescu and Croatia’s Poglavnik
Ante Pavelic); highly decorated war heroes such as Walter Nowotny and Leon
Degrelle; Army Group Commaders such as Field Marshals von Bock, Rundstedt and
List; the conspirators who almost succeeded in assassinating Adolf Hitler on
July 20, 1944; and many other important figures of the time, all brought to life
with the immediacy and vitality that only color photography can provide. Also
featured in this illustrated study are maps of the Rastenburg area, a diagram of
the situation conference room on July 20, 1944 and a brief introduction
outlining the history of the Wolf’s Lair complex.
Hardbound, Deluxe Binding, German Text, 160pp., European DIN A4 Format
(approx. 8 ½ inches x 11 ¾ inches). ITEM
NO. LS110361 $39.95
Der
Österreich Anschluss 1938 (History
in Color Series). Franz Wallner. The
unification of Austria and the German Reich in 1938 was the fulfillment of a
long-held dream of the German people. Following the fragmentation of the Dual
Monarchy in 1918, the democratic legislatures of both the German- and Austrian-
Republics voted to amalgamate both countries into democratic, socialist state
that would embrace both Germans and Austrians. This was strictly forbidden by
the peace treaties that “ended” World War I however, and following some
saber-rattling by the victorious allied powers which had proclaimed Wilsonian
“self-determination of peoples” as a war aim, the question would not be
taken up again until March 1938, when a new German government felt itself strong
enough to implement the wishes of people on both sides of the border regardless
of foreign pressures to the contrary. This sensational color volume presents the
days of the Anschluss in astoundingly fresh and vivid color photos (most
never before published) depicting Hitler’s entry into Vienna, Linz, Salzburg,
Innsbruck, Kalgenfurt and Graz; German troops being greeted by jubilant human
throngs; The troops of the Austrian Bundesheer parading for their
comrades of the Wehrmacht; the ceremonial unification of the German and
Austrian police forces; the great buildings of Vienna, including the Cathedral
of St. Stephen, the Opera House, the Burgtheater and the Parliament
Building; Schloss Klesshiem, which was later used by Hitler for
diplomatic conferences; peasant life in the reincorporated South Tyrol
(post-1943) and much more. Also included is a general survey of Austrian history
(illustrated in black and white) with emphasis on the post-1918 period.
Hardbound, Deluxe Binding, German Text, 160pp., European DIN A4 Format (approx.
8 ½ inches x 11 ¾ inches). ITEM NO. LS110567 $39.95
Legion Condor:
Sie flogen jenseits der Grenzen (History in Color Series). Richard Lobsien. In
the summer of 1936, the dispatch of German military personnel to serve in the
Spanish Civil War was a closely guarded state secret. General Franco had sought
assistance from Hitler, and from his request the Legion Condor (a unit of
regular Luftwaffe personnel that had been mustered out of the Wehrmacht
for this exact purpose) had been born. In thirty-two months of fighting, these
volunteers decisively helped the Spanish Nationalist forces (at first as
instructors, then as combat troops) to overcome the leftist Popular Front
government of Spain, which was itself supported by the so-called
“International Brigades” organized and directed by Moscow. Not until the
victory parade of the Legion Condor on June 6, 1939 did the German public
become aware that a total of 20,000 German fighting men (most from the Luftwaffe,
but also personnel from the armored forces and Navy) had participated in this
first “campaign of the Wehrmacht”. This volume presents fascinating
color (most never before published) and black-and-white photos depicting the
service of the Condor Legion in the skies of Spain as well as on the
ground, their return to Germany on the Wilhelm Gustloff and their great
victory parade in Berlin, including Hitler’s address to the assembled
legionaries in the Berlin Lustgarten. Uniforms, aircraft and weapons are
shown in detail, as is the Legion’s military band and its commanders. Also
included is an introduction (illustrated in black-and-white) outlining the
course of the Spanish Civil War and the deployment of the Legion. Hardbound, Deluxe Binding, German Text, 160pp., European DIN
A4 Format (approx. 8 ½ inches x 11 ¾ inches). ITEM NO. LS110642
$39.95
Sturm auf Moskau: Von Finnland bis zum Schwarzen Meer (Der Russlandkrieg in
Farbe, Band I). Reinhard Oltmann. First volume in a projected three-volume series chronicling the
Russo-German War of 1941-1945 in color photographs taken by German cameramen.
The first year of the Eastern Campaign was characterized by the swift occupation
of gigantic territorial swaths by German forces and titanic battles of
encirclement, which brought in millions of Soviet POW’s. German soldiers
quickly became acquainted with the less attractive side of the war in the East
too: “highways” that were little more than mud pits and murderously cold
winter weather. In breathtaking, partly never before published color photos, the
sweep of Operation Barbarossa and the agony of Operation Typhoon come to new
life, conveying the sheer immensity of the Russian landscape and the intensity
of the Germans’ effort to forestall and overcome an opponent many times the
size of their own armed forces. Numerous action shots of panzers and artillery
are presented, as are scenes of coexistence and cooperation between occupier and
occupied in the rear areas. The fighting on such “secondary fronts” as the
Soviet Arctic is covered, as is the East-Front service of the French and
Croatian volunteer legions. Idyllic winter scenes of onion-domed Russian
churches are contrasted with photos of close combat and the faces of crouching
Landsers bearing expressions of tension and exhaustion. Also included is an
insightful analysis (illustrated in black-and-white) of
the events leading up to the outbreak of the war in the East in June 1941, plus
conclusive proof that “Barbarossa” actually forestalled an imminent Soviet
invasion of the Reich. Hardbound, Deluxe Binding, German Text, 160pp., European
DIN A4 Format (approx. 8 ½ inches x 11 ¾ inches). ITEM NO. LS102168 $39.95
In
die Tiefen Russlands: Durchbruch zu Wolga und Kaukasus
(Der Russlandkrieg in Farbe, Band II). Reinhard
Oltmann. Second volume in a projected three-volume series chronicling the
Russo-German War of 1941-1945 in color photographs taken by German cameramen.
The second year of the Russian Campaign opened with the Wehrmacht
fighting for its life in the frozen wastes before Moscow, but spring brought a
German recovery and the arrival of summer saw German troops advance to the very
gates of Asia on the lower Volga and in the Caucasus. Vivid color photos depict
field-grey clad Landsers advancing at a leisurely pace over vast, almost
treeless landscapes, while laughing Luftwaffe personnel cut Red Stars off the
wings of shot-down Soviet aircraft as trophies; mundane scenes of military
dentists providing much needed dental care to troops at the front contrast with
somber views of German graves in a Russian village churchyard. Other photos
depict curious Ukrainian civilians in occupied Kharkhov engaging in an animated
discussion around a map showing German advances on all fronts while Hitler and
General Friedrich von Paulus confer at the headquarters of Army Group South in
Poltava; troops from Spain, France and Slovakia who have against volunteered to
fight against Bolshevism are seen arriving at the front, while Russian Cossacks
and Cauacasian mountain tribes that have greeted the Wehrmacht as
liberators man German forward postions. Included in this volume is a detailed
military analysis of the Russian Campaign of 1942 and an assessment of the
influence of western allied diversions on German operations in the East.
Hardbound, Deluxe Binding, German Text, 160pp., European DIN A4 Format (approx.
8 ½ inches x 11 ¾ inches). ITEM NO. LS102171 $39.95
Reichsautobahn: Schönheit, Natur, Technik. (History
in Color Series). Arend Vosselman. As he supervised the construction of the
first stretch of the Reichsautobahn near Frankfurt am Main on September 23,
1933, Dr. Fritz Todt embarked upon a project that combined the disciplines of
many of Germany’s finest engineers, builders and architects. This nationwide
network of 24-meter wide, four lane highways was foreseen as an effective means
to link the Reich’s various regions closely together and its construction was
rigorously planned to harmonize with the contours of a still unspoiled German
landscape. Aesthetics were accorded as much importance as functionality, and
even utilitarian installations such as filling stations, rest areas and bridges
built along its byways were carefully designed to reflect German historical
traditions and artistic values. This volume affords a unique contemporary view
(in mostly never-before–published color and black and white photos) of this
gigantic construction project, with each “chapter” devoted to a specific
stretch of the Reichsautobahn. Illustrated in rich detail are the careful
landscaping, the artistically designed support buildings and the construction
methods employed. There is also a section with “color chips” illustrating
the types of native natural stone used on structures in regions through which
the Reichsautobahnen coursed. Also included is a history of the Reichsautobahnen
from their conception to their fate in the Second World War. Hardbound, Deluxe
Binding, German Text, 176pp., European DIN A4 Format (approx. 8 ½ inches x 11
¾ inches). ITEM NO. LS110440 $39.95 SALE
“…über alles in der Welt!”, a comprehensive, scholarly study of German patriotic songs and their history. This must-have reference book provides the musical scores and words to over ONE HUNDRED of the most stirring battle songs, anthems and ballads that have played a central role in the last thousand years of German history. The historical background to each song and/or anthem, including details on composers and lyricists, is presented clearly and concisely, while the development of the German musical heritage as a whole from the Middle Ages to the present is discussed. The book also includes a fascinating study of the German national anthems of various periods, as well as the “also-rans” that were considered for official status but were rejected. Examined are the national hymns of the Second Reich, the German- and Austrian Republics and “East”- and West Germany, with particular emphasis placed upon the Deutschlandlied (Deutschland über alles). The use of the Deutschlandlied during the Third Reich along with its officially ordained „companion“ hymn, the now-banned Horst Wessel-Lied, is frankly and objectively discussed. Also included are the complete text and music to such classic Vaterlandslieder as Argonnerwald; Burschen heraus!; Die Wacht am Rhein; Fridericus Rex; Heil Dir im Siegerkranz: Ich bin ein Preuße, kennt Ihr meine Farben?; Ich hatt’ einen Kameraden; Lützows wilde, verwegene Jagd; O Deutschland hoch in Ehren; Prinz Eugen der edle Ritter; So hebt die schwarzrotgold’nen Fahnen; Stolz weht die Flagge Schwarz-Weiß-Rot; Vater, ich rufe Dich; Wach auf, du deutsches Reich; Zu Mantua in Banden and many more. Don’t miss this essential reference that finally presents the history behind the music! Hardbound, Deluxe Binding, German Text, 208pp., Illus. in b/w and color. European DIN A4 Format (approx. 8 ½ inches x 11 ¾ inches). ITEM NO. FZB3955 $44.95 BACKORDERED - DUE IN SOON - RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY!
Deutsche Kaiser: Majestäten von Karl dem Großen bis Wilhelm II by Gernot Gyseke. The German Reich traces its origins back to Charlemagne and the Carolingian Dynasty he founded in 800 A.D. and until the catastrophe of 1945, Germany continued to be called “the empire”. This fine study catalogues the men who ruled “das Reich” for its over one-thousand year history, encompassing periods of unprecedented greatness, majesty and power as well as centuries of trial and testing. Presented within are all the great ruling dynasties, including the Ottonians, the Hohenstaufen, the Luxemburgs, the Habsburgs and Prussia’s Hohenzollerns. Covered in rich detail are the lives of such mighty figures as Otto the Great (912-973), who personally carried the Holy Lance of Longinus into battle against the Magyar hordes at Lechfeld in 955; Frederick I “Barbarossa” (c.1123-1190), who established the supremacy of the empire against rebellious vassals as well as the Pope but later died in the Levant on the Third Crusade; Maximilian I (1459-1519), whose reign became a golden age of learning and culture; and Charles V (1500-1558), the Habsburg who reigned over much of Europe and (as King of Spain) most of the Americas and thus has the distinction of having ruled the largest empire in human history. The book is illustrated throughout in black-and-white and color and also includes a complete listing of German emperors, the years of their reigns and their burial places. Hardbound, Deluxe Binding, Dust Jacket, German Text, 254pp., Numerous Illus. in B/W and Color, Approx. 9½ inches x 7 inches. ITEM NO. FZB4216 $44.95 BACKORDERED - DUE IN SOON - RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY!
...und Deutschlands Grenzen! Von der Etsch bis an den Belt: Deutschlands Grenzen im Laufe von zwei Jahrtausenden in 180 Karten by Karl-Heinz Lindner. Throughout their two thousand year history, the German people have lived within continually changing boundaries. This unique atlas presents a complete picture of the territorial evolution of the German nation from its earliest beginnings to the present in 180 chronologically arranged maps, each one clearly and concisely cataloging the territorial gains and/or losses experienced by Germany in the period depicted. Beginning with the “Germania” of 750 B.C., the entire sweep of German history is presented, from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages and modern era, including: the Frankish Empire; the East-Frankish Empire; the “Romisch-Deutsches Reich” of the post-Carolingian era; the “Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation” (which was in its prime the dominant power in Europe but, after a long decline, was finally dissolved by Napoleon I in 1806); the German Confederation; the post-1866 North German Confederation; the Second Reich of the Hohenzollern Emperors (and its overseas colonies) which existed from 1871 to 1918; the Weimar Republic; the Greater German Reich of 1938-1945; occupied postwar Germany; and finally, the Bundesrepublik of today. In addition to the maps, there are some nice color plates and black and white illustrations of subjects from various historical periods. Hardbound, Deluxe Binding, Dust Jacket, German Text, 184pp., European DIN A4 Format (approx. 8 ½ inches x 11 ¾ inches). ITEM NO. FZB3801 $44.95 BACKORDERED - DUE IN SOON - RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY!
HARD TO FIND AND OUT OF PRINT TITLES
HIGHLIGHTED ITEMS
Hitler’s
Greatest Defeat: The Collapse of Army Group Centre, June, 1944.
Paul Adair.
Out of print. Arms and Armour Press, London, 1994. 192 pages, hardbound with
dust jacket. 6.5 inches by 9.5 inches. 16 pages of b/w photos, six maps. New
condition. Following on the heels of the Normandy landings of June 6, 1944, the
Soviet 1944 summer offensive in Byelorussia (“Operation Bagration”)
destroyed some thirty irreplaceable German divisions and ripped a hole in the
German eastern front that was hundreds of miles wide. The westward surge of the
Soviet forces across the sandy wastes, swamps and forests of Byelorussia would
end with Red advance guards reaching the eastern outskirts of Warsaw and the
capture of hundreds of thousands of German enlisted men, vast stocks of military
equipment and dozens of high ranking general officers. The interesting
appendices in this book contain the complete text of the various German and
Soviet command directives issued in conjunction with this fateful campaign,
including Hitler’s “Fortified Places” directive that doomed countless
German soldiers to inevitable encirclement by Soviet armored spearheads. $19.95
Foreign
Legions of The Third Reich Volume I: Norway, Denmark, France.
David Littlejohn, M.A., A.L.A.
Rare, out of print original edition published in 1979 by R. James Bender
Publishing, San Jose, CA. 208 pages illustrated throughout in b/w and color.
Hardcover with deluxe binding, 9.25 inches x 6.25 inches. Mild age discoloration
but otherwise in excellent condition. This study of pro-German military and
political collaboration in occupied Scandinavia and France examines not only the
uniforms and insignia of the various foreign volunteer formations from these
countries that joined themselves to the German war effort in World War II, but
also delves into their ideological background and motivation, which was usually
based on a belief in a united Europe combined with an uncompromising
anti-bolshevism. Hundreds of insignia from the Norwegian, Danish and French
national socialist movements are illustrated in full color, as are those of
indigenous security formations operating under the tutelage of the occupying
power. Included in the “French” section of the book is an
interesting study of pro-German Arab formations from the French colonial empire
in North Africa. A standard work on the subject that has yet to be surpassed.
$39.95
Krieg
auf dem Balkan 1940-1945.
Janusz Piekalkiewicz.
Out of Print. Bechtermünz-Verlag, 1989. 320 pages, hardbound with dustjacket.
10.5 inches x 7.5 inches. German text. Illustrated history packed with b/w
photos and maps throughout. Very good condition, d-j shows no tearing. This is a
fine study of World War Two in southeastern Europe. Beginning with Mussolini’s
ill-starred invasion of Greece in 1940, the war in the strategic Balkan
Peninsula quickly widened to involve British landings in Greece and the dispatch
of a German military mission to secure the vital oil wells of Rumania. With the
Yugoslav army officer’s coup of March 1940, which threatened to disrupt the
German southeastern flank on the eve of “Operation Barbarossa”, the German
Wehrmacht swiftly crushed the Yugoslav Royal Army and ejected the British from
Greece. The chaotic situation in Yugoslavia soon gave rise to a savage partisan
war that would go on for years and see Germans, Italians and Croats fighting
Serbs, Muslims fighting Christians, Orthodox Christians fighting Catholics and
Tito’s Communists fighting a German Wehrmacht which was allied with the
royalist Chetniks of Draja Mihailovich. This fine volume in the best
Piekalkiewicz tradition illustrates a rarely examined yet crucial theatre of the
Second World War in hundreds of photographs that have rarely been seen in the
English-speaking world. $24.95
The
Hitler Youth.
David Littlejohn.
Published by Agincourt Publishers 1988. Out of Print. Mint condition, 6.5in x
9.5in hardcover with mint dust-jacket. 377pp., illustrated throughout in b/w and
color. Out of print, classic history of the Hitler Youth movement in Germany,
its overseas branches and the non-German youth movements that collaborated with
it. Packed with photos and drawings of uniforms, flags and insignia, as well as
portrait photos of HJ members and numerous action shots. Individual chapters
include: Prehistory of the Hitler Youth; Hitler Youth Ranks; Specialist Sections
of the Hitler Youth; League of National Socialist Students; NPEA Reichsschulen;
AH Schools; NS Deutsche Oberschule Starnbergersee; Leadership- and Shooting
Courses; Aeronautical Preparatory Technical Schools; Deutsches Jungvolk; Bund
Deutscher Mädel (BDM) und Jungmädel; Camping and Foreign Visits; Badges and
Awards; National Vocational Contests; Daggers and Knives; Hitler Youth at War;
The Germanic Landdienst; The HJ in Central and Eastern Europe and Other
Countries (including China, Southern Africa, Japan and others); Youth Resistance
and Punishment; and much more. $39.95
Signal:
Hitler’s Wartime Picture Magazine.
Edited by Sidney L. Mayer.
9 inch x 12 inch hardcover with dust jacket (on which minor tearing has been
repaired, otherwise book and d-j are in very good condition). Approximately 180
(unnumbered) pages of full page facsimile reproductions from the
English-language edition of the magazine “Signal”, a publication that at its
high point in 1943 had a total circulation of 2.5 million and was printed in up
to twenty languages. “Signal” was intended to communicate the German
Reich’s point of view to the peoples of Europe and the world, and it is
reputed that the German propaganda ministry chose the word “Signal” as the
title for this publication because it has the same meaning in virtually all the
languages of Europe. In this volume, one can glimpse a contemporary German view
of the campaigns in the West and Scandinavia; read pithy German analyses of such
wide ranging subjects as the British caste system and the alleged American
propensity for waging war on civilians as demonstrated by General William
Tecumseh Sherman; peruse a record of British imperialist expansion throughout
history; read harrowing articles showing the horror-stricken faces of Baltic-
and Ukrainian civilians as NKVD execution centers in the western USSR are thrown
open by advancing German troops; and, as defeat draws closer, read stoic
accounts of combat in the East followed by stern warnings to the West that its
support of the USSR has laid the foundation for an inevitable Third World War;
and much more. $19.95
Military
Improvisations During The Russian Campaign: Department Of The Army Pamphlet
20-201, AUGUST 1951.
Softbound,
approximately 6” x 9”, 110pp., six maps. Original edition (not a reprint!)
of a 1951 “Department of the Army Pamphlet” issued for study by US Army
staff officers. This is a detailed examination of the improvisations that savage
conditions and a huge numerical disparity between the German and Soviet sides
compelled resourceful German commanders to institute during the titanic struggle
in the East. Written from the German point of view by an unnamed German officer
expressly for the US Army in the late 40’s (the brief description of the
unknown author’s career in the preface indicates that it is probably none
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Marshal
Of The Soviet Union G. Zhukov: Reminiscences And Reflections. Progress
Publishers, Moscow USSR.
2 Volumes, 5” X 8”, Hardbound
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of b/w photos, Vol. 2 has 486pp. plus 80 pp. of photos. Numerous maps
throughout. Fine, like-new condition. A fascinating first person account of the
military life of one of the most important commanders of the Second World War is
presented in these volumes. Zhukov’s narrative begins with an
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and Russian Civil War and his early career in the newly-established Red Army.
The industrialization and military buildup of the USSR throughout the twenties
and thirties are covered, as well as the battles in Manchuria and Mongolia
against the Japanese Kwantung Army. The lion’s share of this expansive work is
of course taken up with Zhukov’s role in the battles and campaigns of what is
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Katalog
Deutsche Orden und Ehrenzeichen: 1871 bis zur Gegenwart. Battenberg
Verlag, 1995. Complete
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Republic, Third Reich, GDR and FRG. Softbound, 286pp., over 950 b/w
illustrations. $15.00
Das
Deutsche Bajonett: Seitengewehre 1871-1945.
John Walter. Motorbuch
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Illustrated with b/w photos and drawings throughout. German text. Hardbound,
deluxe binding, 7.5 inches x 9.75 inches. Brand
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conversion of captured enemy bayonets for use on German rifles from 1914-1918 is
covered, as are all the bayonets employed on the venerable Mauser rifles carried
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Waffen-SS Camouflage Uniforms and Postwar Derivatives. Peterson. All
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Waffen-SS
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World
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Sowjetische
Auszeichnungen: Ein Katalog.
Dietrich
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text. 118pp., SB. $9.95
Uniforms
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Uniformen
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Beautifully illustrated work on
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The
Luftwaffe.
Roger James Bender. The
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320pp., over 220 photos, many line drawings, charts and diagrams. (some
color), HB, d-j. $19.95
German
Uniforms of the Third Reich 1933-1945. Brian
Leigh Davis. New,
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$9.95
Death from
Above: The German FG42 Paratroop Rifle.
Dugleby & Stevens.
The first in-depth study ever of the Fallschirmjägergewehr
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“G”), utilizing material from period manuals, official testing reports and
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Lugers
at Random. Charles
Kenyon, Jr. Revised
edition of the standard work covering all models and types of the German
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The
German Assault Rifle, 1935-1945.
Peter
R. Senich. Thorough account
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charts and blueprints. 314pp., HB, d-j. $29.95
The
German Armor and Military Vehicles Series.
Walter
J. Spielberger. The classic
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for his emphasis on detail, the author copiously examines each vehicle
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Stuka:
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Gebhard Aders and Werner Held. Photo
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types and auxiliary equipment. 248pp., HB, d-j. $9.95
Luftwaffe
Propaganda: A Pictorial History of the Luftwaffe in Original German Postcards. James
Wilson.
The aircraft, leadership,
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The
German 88 Gun in Combat: The Scourge of Allied Armor.
Janusz Piekalkiewicz.
Photo history of the famous “Acht-Acht” in action. Its history,
development, combat service and all variants are comprehensively presented in
this engrossing study. 192pp., over 200 photos, HB, d-j. $9.95
German
Secret Weapons of the Second World War: The Missiles, Rockets, Weapons and New
Technology of the Third Reich. Ian
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fascinating story, shorn of sensationalistic propaganda myth, of Germany’s V
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$14.95
Secret
Messerschmitt Projects. Willy
Radinger and Walter Schick. The
Me 1101, the Luftwaffe’s top secret turbo-jet aircraft project.
Specifications, development and construction treated in copious detail. 208pp.,
200 b/w photos, drawings, HB, deluxe binding. $14.95
Joseph
Goebbels: Eine Biographie in Bildern.
Thomas
Altstedt.
Photogrpahic biograpahy of Reich Propaganda Minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels.
Following a comprehensive text chronicling Goebbels’ intellectual and
political development, his character, the major events in his career and his
private life (including the many women in his life), the book’s illustrated
section presents over fifty pages of rare and classic photos portraying the
period before the seizure of power, the “six years of peace” from 1933 to
1939, Goebbels’ cultural endeavors, his family circle, his role as master
propagandist, his work during the war years and the final, cataclysmic end in
May, 1945. Includes a comprehensive sampling of Goebbels’ own views of himself
and the great events of his day, taken from a cross section of his diaries,
proclamations, speeches and more. German Text. Hardbound, Dust Jacket, 160pp.
$24.95
Heinrich
Himmler: A Photographic Chronicle of Hitler’s Reichsführer-SS.
Martin Mansson.
Many
books have been written about Heinrich Himmler and the SS, though no
photographic study of his life has ever been assembled until now. Contained
within this large format volume are over 380 photographs of Himmler,
illustrating his entire career from his service as an officer candidate during
the First World War to the years when he was the second most powerful man in
Europe. Includes plenty of previously unseen and candid photos depicting his
childhood and adolescence, his family- and married life, his relations with
Hitler and other Nazi leaders, his role in the Europe-wide SS volunteer
movement, his 1945 suicide in Allied captivity and much more. Hardbound with
Dust Jacket, 240pp. $19.95
The Fall of Berlin.
Anthony Read and David Fisher.
Not merely another “Götterdämmerung” rehash, but rather a complete account
of the German capital at war 1939-45, from the early victories to the final
defeat. Discusses everyday life as it was for the average Berliner under the
relentless Allied air attacks, local civil defense preparations, the destruction
of architectural monuments and industry, the final
Soviet onslaught, etc. 505pp., photos,
HB, d-j. $10.95
Hitler’s
Second Army: The Waffen-SS.
Edmund L. Blandford. The development
and history of the Armed-SS viewed within the context of its time. Includes
verbatim first person accounts of participants ranging from the highest officers
to the ordinary rank and file.
216pp., 24pp. of photos. HB, d-j. $10.95
Knights of
the Wehrmacht: Knight’s Cross Holders of the Fallschirmjäger.
Franz Kurowski. Biographical
dictionary of Knight’s Cross winners of the German Parachute arm. Each
recipient is profiled in a capsule biography including date of birth, the award
of various Knight’s Cross grades and all particulars relating to rank and
career, along with a period photo. 280pp., over 130 photos, HB, d-j. $14.95
Knights
of the Wehrmacht: Knight’s Cross Holders of the U-Boat Service.
Franz Kurowski. Biographical
dictionary of Knight’s Cross holders of the German U-Boat arm. Each recipient
is profiled in a capsule biography including date of birth, the award of various
Knight’s Cross grades and all particulars relating to rank and career, along
with a period photo. 280pp.,
150 photos, HB, d-j. $14.95
Dein
KDF Wagen (“Your Volkswagen”). Volkswagenwerk
GmbH, Berlin.
Exact facsimile reprint of
the original 1939 VW sales brochure. Packed with b/w photos and halftones, plus
interesting, full color card-stock covers. English translation included. 34pp.,
60 photos. $9.95
The Last
Days of Hitler: The Legends, The Evidence, The Truth.
Anton
Joachimsthaler.
Definitive account of the
final weeks of German Führer’s life and his death in the ruins of Berlin.
Plenty of new material demolishing many myths, among them the “findings” of
the Red Army autopsy of June, 1945. 320pp., 32pp. photos and diagrams. HB,
d-j. $14.95
Hitler:
The Hoffmann Photographs.
Ray
Cowdery, ed. High-quality
facsimile reprint of Hitler Conquers
the German Heart, a 1939 work portraying the Führer during the emotional
events accompanying the Austrian Anschluss and the return of the Sudetenland.
Compiled from 235 photographs taken by Hitler’s personal photographer,
Heinrich Hoffmann. German-English text. SB, 174pp. $9.95
War
on the Eastern Front: The German Soldier in Russia, 1941-1945. James
Lucas. The
war in Russia as told from the point of view of the German front line soldier,
with a focus on the everyday aspects of the campaign, including the brutal
winters, the partisan war, small unit actions, soldier’s diaries and more. SB,
214pp., 16pp. of photos. $9.95
An
Eye For An Eye: The Untold Story Of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945.
John Sack.
Riveting treatment of a seldom-discussed aspect of World War II history -
the slaughter of German civilians by the communist political police of
Soviet-occupied Poland in the “Oder-Neisse” territories from 1945 to 1947.
Based on painstaking research, including comprehensive interviews of surviving
victims, bystanders and perpetrators in Germany, Poland, the United States and
Israel. 252pp.,
pb. $9.95
The
Blitzkrieg Campaigns: Germany’s Lighting War Strategy In Action. John
Delaney.
The Blitzkrieg in Poland, France, the Low Countries and Russia. Large format,
with interesting photos and analysis of the German, Polish, French, British and
Soviet armed forces. 176pp.,
218 photos. HB, d-j. $9.95
Als
Deutschlands Dämme brachen: Die Wahrheit über die Bombardierung der Möhne-Eder-Sorpe
Staudämme, 1943. Helmuth
Euler. On
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the head of Germany’s industrial Ruhr valley.
Hundreds of square miles of territory were flooded, hundreds of homes
destroyed and 1200 men, women and children were drowned while sleeping in their
beds - but the Ruhr’s armaments industries remained virtually unaffected. This
is the story of that raid, its lessons and its aftermath. German
text. HB, deluxe binding. 226pp., 130 illus. $14.95
Churchill’s
War, Vol. II: Triumph in
Adversity. David
Irving. The
long-awaited second installment of David Irving’s monumental, probing
biography of the wartime British Prime Minister, examining the period from Pearl
Harbor (by which time he had virtually bankrupted Britain and badly compromised
her imperial interests in favor of the USA and USSR) to the Potsdam Conference
of July 1945. “Winston Churchill was a man who destroyed two empires, one of
them the enemy’s”. HB, d-j., 1100pp., 36pp. of b/w and color photos. $19.95
Nuremberg:
The Last Battle. David
Irving. Using
the unpublished diaries of the principal actors - the judges, lawyers and even
the defendants themselves - David Irving sheds new and disturbing light on what
has been called the “trial of the century”. Includes incisive and frank
discussions of confessions extracted under torture, the doctoring and
suppression of evidence, witness intimidation and the tribunal’s conscious
harassment of defense counsel, PLUS fascinating new material unraveling the
mystery behind Hermann Göring’s eleventh-hour suicide.
HB, d-j, 378pp., 32pp. of mostly never-before-seen b/w and color photos.
$34.95
Bomber
Offensive. Marshal
of the RAF Sir Arthur Harris.
The memoirs of ‘Bomber’
Harris himself, the father of the firestorms of Hamburg and Dresden and
the thousand bomber raids on Cologne and Berlin. Worth reading for a
variety of reasons. SB.
320pp., 16 photos. $8.95
The
Last Knight of Flanders: Remy Schrijnen and his SS-Legion ‘Flandern’ /
Sturmbrigade ‘Langemarck’ Comrades on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945.
Allen
Brandt.
The story of the Flemish
independence movement, the tens of thousands of young Europeans who volunteered
to join Germany’s war against Soviet Russia and the titanic, no-quarter
struggle on the Eastern Front, presented in the biography of one man whose life
encompassed all of these things: Remy Schrijnen, the only Flemish volunteer to
win the Knights’ Cross of the Iron Cross. HB, d-j. 272pp., 110 photos,
drawings, maps. $12.95
Grossdeutschland,
1942: A Guidebook to Germany During the Third Reich. Facsimile
reprint of an official directory of German governmental organizations, agencies
and offices, including over 800 entries from Gauleiters and Ministers to Hitler
himself. Includes street addresses, telephone numbers and more. 26pp.,
SB. $9.95
Brennpunkt
Erzhafen Narvik: Zerstörer in Norwegens Fjorden. Peter
Dickens.
German and British naval
forces clash in the waters off Narvik during the Battle for Norway, 1940. A
balanced account by a British Naval officer which analyses the strengths and
weaknesses of both sides, profiles the opposing naval officers and, most
provocatively, frankly discusses Churchill’s plans to violate Norwegian
neutrality. German text. HB, d-j. 324pp. 94 illus. $9.95
Stalingrad:
The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943. Anthony
Beevor.
The gigantic battle on the
Volga, portrayed in a new account utilizing previously untapped primary sources,
including reports on desertions and executions from the Russian Ministry of
Defense, captured German documents, transcripts of prisoner interrogations,
private letters and diaries from soldiers on both sides, medical reports and
interviews with key witnesses and participants.
Not a dry “order of battle” type of narrative, but rather a moving
story of war as lived by the men on the ground, replete with unusual and
fascinating new details. 494pp.,
16pp. of photos, 6 maps, HB, d-j. $9.95
Rommel:
The Trail of the Fox. David
Irving. Reprint
of Irving’s classic account of the life and career of Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel, based on the Desert Fox’s long-lost diaries, his private
papers and even his army personnel file. A portrait not only of the military
leader, but also the husband, father and private man. SB,
deluxe binding, 464pp., 60 photos, maps. $9.95
Hitler.
John
Toland.
Reprint of Toland’s
monumental 1976 study of the life of the German Leader, replete with surprising
and fascinating facts and noted for its sober and objective narrative style. SB,
deluxe binding, 1088pp., 64pp. of photos, maps. $9.95
The
Red Air Fighter. Baron
Manfred von Richthofen.
The legendary Red Baron
wrote this autobiography in 1917, just a few months before he fell in battle.
This is his own story, presenting an account of his career nearly up to the
moment of his death. Includes a complete list of his aerial victories. SB,
deluxe binding, 192pp., 25 b/w photos. $9.95
Berlin
Rising: Biography of a City.
Anthony Read and David Fisher. The
history of Berlin from the middle ages to the post-unification years,
presented in an anecdotal but comprehensive and well organized format.
All the major political, cultural, social, ethnological, strategic, economic and
ecological factors which have influenced the history of the city are covered in
clear detail in this highly readable study. 341pp., 24pp. b-w illus., maps, d-j.
$14.95
Breslau
so wie es war: Ein Bildband.
Ernst Scheyer. Droste
Verlag, Germany. Nice A4 size
photo history presenting, in words and rare archival photos, a comprehensive
survey of Breslau, Silesia “as it was” before the devastation wrought by war
and the postwar expulsions. Approx. 104 pages and 160 b/w illustrations, Deluxe
Binding. $29.95
Danzig
so wie es war: Ein Bildband. Hans
Lewald. Droste
Verlag, Germany. Nice A4 size
photo history presenting, in words and rare archival photos, a comprehensive
survey of Danzig, West Prussia “as it was” before the devastation wrought by
war and the postwar expulsions. Approx. 104 pages and 160 b/w illustrations,
Deluxe Binding. $29.95
Stettin
so wie es war: Ein Bildband. Otto
Kunkel. Droste
Verlag, Germany. Nice A4 size
photo history presenting, in words and rare archival photos, a comprehensive
survey of Stettin, Pomerania, “as it was” before the devastation wrought by
war and the postwar expulsions. Approx. 104 pages and 160 b/w illustrations,
Deluxe Binding. $29.95
Das
Berliner Zeughaus: Die Baugeschichte. Regina
Müller.
Sumptuous, large format
study chronicling the history of the Berlin Zeughaus, the oldest building on the
Unter den Linden, from its
construction by King Frederick I as an arsenal for the garrison of Berlin to its
completion as a baroque masterpiece by Andreas Schlüter, its late nineteenth
century conversion to a trophy hall and museum of Prussian military glory, its
role as the venue for many important ceremonial functions during the Third
Reich, its wartime acquisition of important enemy trophies (including the famous
Compiegne “surrender” coach), its wartime destruction by allied bombers and
its postwar use as the marxist-oriented “Museum of German History” by the
SED. HB, d-j., 320 pp., 276 b/w and color illus. $19.95
Kleine
Geschichte des Preussenlandes: Ostpreussen und Westpreussen. Fritz
Gause.
Compact and concise survey
of the history of East and West Prussia, from the earliest times to the events
of 1945. Illustrated throughout, with numerous maps. German text. 108pp., HB,
d-j. $19.95
Bayreuth:
A History of the Wagner Festival. Frederic
Spotts. Superb study of the
Bayreuth Festival, the historic cultural event dedicated to the performances of
the great music-dramas of Richard Wagner. Origins, Wagner’s life, work and
artistic concepts, his descendants, Hitler at Bayreuth, the wartime festivals,
postwar “experimentation”, etc. 334pp., many illus. throughout, PB. $9.95
Schlesien
in 1440 Bildern. Klaus
Granzow und Reinhard Hausmann.
Huge photographic study of
all the cities, towns and regions of Silesia, compiled from archival photographs
of the province taken before the Second World War and depicting its landscapes,
architecture and people. German text. 728pp., HB, d-j. $49.99
Namen
die keiner mehr nennt: Ostpreussen, Menschen und Geschichte. Marion
Gräfin Dönhoff.
An evocative collection of
essays by Marion Countess Dönhoff (1909-), editor of Die
Zeit and daughter of an old and venerable family that figured prominently in
the history of the German East. Includes No
One Goes East Any More, in which she recounts her flight (along with vast
throngs of refugees) from the rampaging Bolshevik hordes who invaded her East
Prussian homeland in 1945; Ride Through
Masuria, a personal account of a days-long excursion on horseback through
the hauntingly beautiful autumn countryside
of Masuria in 1941; An Economic Miracle
From Two Centuries Ago, in which she recounts her doctoral research into the
history of her family estate Friedrichstein, near Königsberg, and the labors of
her ancestors who transformed wilderness into flourishing productivity; and
several other fascinating and thought-provoking essays. HB, d-j. 200pp., 23
color photos. $9.95
Ostbrandenburg
in 144 Bildern. Karin
Bader.
Pre-1945 photos of the
historic eastern areas of the Mark Brandenburg amputated by the “Oder-Neisse
Line”. German
text. HB, d-j. 80pp. $15.00
Stettin:
Daten und Bilder zur Stadtgeschichte. Ernst
Völker. Year by year
chronology of the history of the Pomeranian capital, Stettin, from prehistory to
1945. Hundreds of drawings, photos, maps, town plans and self contained articles
on the great events, buildings and people that made this great German metropolis
on the Baltic one of the leading cultural and commercial centers of Northern
Europe. 262pp., HB, d-j. $9.95
Der Deutsche Ritterorden und seine Bauten. Niels von Holst. Fine pictorial survey of the military architecture of the Teutonic Knights, depicting castle “commanderies” and fortifications from Jerusalem to Seville and from Thorn in West Prussia to Narva in the Baltic. German text. 258pp., 205 illus., HB. $19.95
Die
Befreiungskriege, 1807-1815: Napoleon gegen Deutschland und Europa. HW
Koch.
The
dramatic story of Germany’s defeat by Napoleon and her resurgence, culminating
in the Wars of Liberation, told in a sweeping narrative covering the years
between the Treaty of Tilsit and Waterloo. Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Blücher,
Freiherr vom Stein, Queen Louisa, Andreas Hofer, Ernst Mortiz Arndt and other
giants of this period emerge from these pages as symbols of the historic
all-German impulse to freedom and national self-determination. A work that
concentrates not merely on the military aspects, but also the intellectual and
spiritual dimensions of the German rising of 1813. German Text. Hardbound, Dust
Jacket 600pp. $9.95
The Sigel
Regiment: A History of the 26th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry,
1862-1865. James
S. Pula.
The American Civil War as
experienced by the men of the 26th Wisconsin, a unit composed of German
immigrants and German-Americans which was raised in Milwaukee and participated
in some of the most ferocious fighting of the entire war, including the battles
of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, the Chatanooga campaign, etc. HB, d-j.
384pp., 24 illus., 10 maps. $9.95
The
Franco-Prussian War. Michael
Howard. Excellent
historical account of the conflict that led to Germany’s unification in 1871.
Military technology of the period is discussed, as are war plans, the respective
armies, operations (including the siege of Paris) and the peace that followed. HB,
d-j, 512pp. 17 maps. $14.95
Passenger
Liners From Germany. Clas
Broder Hansen. Large
format picture book tracing the development of German ocean liners from their
humble origins as paddle steamers on inland waterways through the days of the
North German Lloyd and Hamburg-Amerika lines, to the huge car ferries of today.
192pp., 300+ b/w, color photos, HB, d-j. $14.95
Die
deutsche Reichsbahn im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Janusz
Piekalkiewicz.
The Second World War placed
gigantic demands on the personnel of the German State railway system. This photo
chronicle superbly illustrates the all-important, but little acknowledged role
of Germany’s railway men in connecting the far-flung fronts on which the
German armed forces fought the greatest battles in their history. HB
deluxe, 196pp., 246 illus. SOLD
Das
Grosse Berliner Eisenbahn Album.
Alfred
B. Gottwaldt.
The
history of Berlin from 1838 to 2000 as seen through its railways. In rare
documentary photos the early private rail lines, the Prussian State Railways and
the old Deutsche Reichsbahn are brought vividly back to life. The men
(like “locomotive king’” August Borsig), the trains, the great stations
(like the grandly imposing Anhalter-, Potsdamer- and Schlesische Bahnhöfe),
the subways and more are all exhaustively depicted herein. This is a vivid
portrait of the arteries through which the life of a great city pulsed for over
160 years, from Berlin’s rise to the status of Weltstadt in the
1880’s and 90’s, its vicissitudes in the World Wars and its
catastrophic condition after 1945, through the postwar reconstruction in East
and West. Includes material on the city’s post-reunification railways and
building plans. German
Text. Hardbound, Deluxe Binding, 500 photos, 392pp. $19.95
Deutsche
Reichsbahn: Kulturgeschichte und Technik.
Alfred
B. Gottwaldt.
The
Deutsche Reichsbahn is a closed chapter in the history of transportation. Once,
it was the vital nerve of economic progress and its technological feats excited
millions. In good times as well as bad, it influenced the destiny of countless
people and left an indelible mark on the history of Germany. This book presents
a richly detailed panorama of posters, postcards, system maps and other
“promotional materials” from the history of the Reichsbahn, as well as a
multitude of rare photos, covering all periods in its history from before the
First World War to the post-reunification period.
German Text. Hardbound, Deluxe Binding, hundreds of photos and
reproductions (many in color), 192pp. $19.95
THE
ROOTS OF STRATEGY, VOLUMES 1,2 AND 3. Brigadier
General T.R. Philips, USA, ed.
Book
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Tzu’s Art Of War; Flavius Vegetius Renatus’ Military Institutions of the Romans; Marshal Maurice de Saxe’s Reveries
on the Art of War; Frederick the Great’s Instructions
to his Generals; and Napoleon’s Military
Maxims. 448pp., SB.
Book
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Includes: Colonel Ardant du Picq’s Battle Studies; Carl von Clausewitz’s Princliples Of War; and Antoine Henri Jomini’s Summary of the Art of War (condensed). 560pp., SB.
The
Roots of Strategy, Book Three: Three Military Classics. General
Field Marshal Ritter von Leeb’s
Defense; Major General Hugo Baron von Freytag-Loringhoven’s The Power of Personality in War; and General Waldemar Erfurth’s Surprise.
554pp., SB.
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Achtung -
Panzer! Major
General Heinz Guderian, Trans. by Christopher Duffy.
New edition of the 1937
theoretical work by the future father of Blitzkrieg. Subtitled:
“The Development of Armored Forces, Their Tactics and Operational
Potential”. 208pp., 40 b/w photos, maps. SB. $6.95