This is an authentic account of German infantry aces, common foot soldiers who were thrust into a blazing maelstrom of bloody horror the world had never seen. On the frozen Russian steppes, under the scorching African desert sun, and in the final desperate battles, they were outnumbered and outgunned and faced impossible odds. Here are the fascinating stories of the men who stared death in the face during some of the most brutal battles ever waged.
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Franz Kurowski served as a reporter in the German Army during World War II and has since written over one hundred books. He lives in Germany.
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Infantry Aces: The German Soldier in Combat in WWII (Stackpole Military History),
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This review is from: Infantry Aces: The German Soldier in Combat in WWII (Stackpole Military History Series) (Paperback)
Both my husband and my son are military history enthusiasts and I bought this book as a gift for them. It has turned out to be even better than I expected. My husband can't put it down and my son keeps asking him to read it to him.
My husband has read a lot of different military history books and he is very critical of most written works because they are not factual enough or don't contain enough interesting information. This book has actually been very interesting and informative to him and he has asked me to look into getting other books in this series. I highly recommend it to anyone that is interested in WWII.
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Mr. Kurowski has used his experience as a reporter in the German army during World War II to write a series of books that tell the history of the war from the German individuals point of view.
This book is a set of eight mini-biographies of German Infantry soldiers. Most of them fought through the entire war and surprisingly most of them survived the war, few without wounds. These are not stories of high ranking officers, but of ordinary soldiers of rather low rank who did their job very, very well. They fought in all the theaters of war from freezing in Russia to burning up in Africa. I am sure that there were men like these in all armies, but these men happened to be German. We can only be happey that they didn't have a whole lot more men like these.
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This book is one of the must have's! Are you are looking for the real info on the Eastern Fornt from the German perspective? Well - this is it! You wont be able to put it down, after you do you will reach for the next one! First hand accounts and an insight into the personalities of some of the Wehrmacht's best during WW2.
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infantry aces, assault grenadiers, company headquarters section, antitank squad, main dressing station, flanking machine guns, platoon command post, motorized infantry regiment, two assault guns, motorized infantry division, exploding hand grenades, cony mander, fire whipped, antitank ditch, second machine gun, illumination flares, parachute division, battalion command post, company command post, grenadier regiment, panzer group, turret ring, antitank gun, antitank rifles, assault division Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Panzer Division, Rudi Brasche, Red Army, Sepp Lainer, Panzer Corps, Iron Cross, Parachute Regiment, Adolf Hitler, Alfred Schneidereit, Grenadier Division, Franz Juschkat, Ist Company, Ist Battalion, Erich Vielwerth, Oberfeldwebel Vielwerth, First Class, Radau Bunker, Das Reich, East Prussian, First World War, Oak Leaves, Unteroffizier Schmitz, Feldwebel Wegener, Franz Schmitz, Oberst Runge New!
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infantry aces, assault grenadiers, company headquarters section, antitank squad, main dressing station, flanking machine guns, platoon command post, motorized infantry regiment, two assault guns, motorized infantry division, exploding hand grenades, cony mander, fire whipped, antitank ditch, second machine gun, illumination flares, parachute division, battalion command post, company command post, grenadier regiment, panzer group, turret ring, antitank gun, antitank rifles, assault division Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Panzer Division, Rudi Brasche, Red Army, Sepp Lainer, Panzer Corps, Iron Cross, Parachute Regiment, Adolf Hitler, Alfred Schneidereit, Grenadier Division, Franz Juschkat, Ist Company, Ist Battalion, Erich Vielwerth, Oberfeldwebel Vielwerth, First Class, Radau Bunker, Das Reich, East Prussian, First World War, Oak Leaves, Unteroffizier Schmitz, Feldwebel Wegener, Franz Schmitz, Oberst Runge New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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