by SS-Brigadefuhrer Kurt Meyer. Translated by Michael
Mende
The recollections of General
Kurt "Panzer" Meyer, commander of 12-SS Panzer Division
"Hitlerjugend". Covers his experiences of service in the
Waffen SS, from recruitment prior to WWII, commanding the
Reconnaisance Company of the 1-SS "Leibstandarte" in Poland,
France and the Balkans, the Eastern Front and the fighting
in Russia, promotion to Regimental Commander in 1943, the
raising of the "Hitlerjugend" Division and his command in
Normandy after the death of its previous commander, the
desperate battles, eventual capture and post-war trial by
the Canadians.
A volume dedicated to the seminal
battles on the Eastern Front in the latter stages of the war
including Zhitomir, Cherkassy, Tarnopol, Kovel, Warsaw, and
Budapest. This is a treasure trove of recently discovered,
professionally shot photography, featuring the following
formations:
1.SS-Panzer-Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf
Hitler", 2.SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich",
3.SS-Panzer-Division "Totenkopf", 4.SS-Panzer-Grenadier
Division"Polizei", 5.SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking",
9.SS-Panzer-Division "Hohenstaufen",
10.SS-Panzer-Division "Frundsberg",
11.SS-Freiwilligen-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Nordland",
12.SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend",
plus a host of
other formations and hitherto rarely seen vehicles and
equipment
New in pictorial boards - Large
format, 296pp, 8 maps, 403 photos, 16 colour pages, 12
diagrams
Sydney Carlin, a native of Hull, enlisted in the Cavalry in
1914. In 1915 he was awarded a DCM during the Second Battle of
Ypres and was Commissioned. In 1916 as a Royal Engineers
Lieutenant, he received an MC at the Battle of Delville Wood,
where he suffered a leg amputation. Despite his discharge as
disabled he was determined to return to the Front Line and
applied to the Royal Flying Corps for pilot training. He was
rejected, but he designed his own wooden leg and payed for
private flying lessons. He persuaded the authorities to send him
to a Front Line Scout squadron in France and, in the summer of
1918 he won a DFC, subsequently crash landing and spending the
last weeks of the War as a POW. He volunteered again in 1939 and
became an air gunner in the Battle of Britain at the age of 50.
He died in 1941 in an air raid.
The Roman conquests of Macedonia
in the 2nd century BC led directly to the extension of their
authority over the troublesome tribes of Thrace to the south
of the Danube. But their new neighbour on the other side of
the mighty river, the kingdom of the Dacians, was to pose an
increasing threat to the Roman empire. Inevitably this
eventually provoked Roman attempts at invasion and conquest.
It is a measure of Dacian prowess and resilience that
several tough campaigns were required over more than a
century before their kingdom was added to the Roman Empire.
It was one of the Empire's last major acquisitions (and a
short-lived one at that).
New in d/w -
149pp, 17 b/w & colour illustrations, 6 maps
A Battleground
Guide by Tim Saunders. The attack by Rudder’s Rangers on
Pointe du Hoc, as one of the opening acts of D Day, is
without doubt an epic of military history. As a result of
Montgomery’s upscaling of the invasion General Bradley’s
First US Army had to deal with a dangerous coastal gun
battery that would dominate the approaches to both Omaha and
Utah Beaches. Lieutenant Colonel James Rudder, commander of
the Provisional Ranger Group consisting of 2nd and 5th US
Rangers, set about training his men and developing
techniques to get up the hundred-foot-high cliff. Rocket
fired grapples, ladders of various types and even free
climbing of a similar lose cliff on England’s south coast
were practiced. On D-Day everything that could go wrong did
go wrong.
