Aegis/Aberjona titles

BLACK EDELWEISS

When a 20-year old Waffen-SS veteran of two years’ combat against the Soviets and Americans is confronted with the awful, undeniable truth of the Holocaust, he must reconcile it with his pride in his comrades’ battlefield sacrifices. The author...

FIVE YEARS FOUR FRONTS. MEMOIR OF A GERMAN SOLDIER 1939-45

A WWII German memoir of major importance, recalling the wartime career of a professional soldier and Knight’s Cross winner. Significance. This book gives it to the reader ‘with the bark on’, is utterly devoid of self-serving, selective amnesia ...

INTO THE MOUNTAINS DARK. A WWII ODYSSEY FROM HARVARD CRIMSON TO INFANTRY BLUE

ODYSSEY OF A PHILIPPINE SCOUT

Thrilling and inspirational memoir of a young American lieutenant serving with the last horse cavalry unit to see combat with the U.S. Army during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941–42. Carefully and meticulously authenticated by the...

SEVEN DAYS IN JANUARY. WITH THE 6TH SS MOUNTAIN DIVISION IN OPERATION NORDWIND

Wolf Zoepf has produced an extremely detailed account, part-memoir, part-combat narrative, covering the actions of 6th SS Mountain Division ‘Nord’ during the battles fought in Operation Nordwind, Alsace, 1945. Against the background of his divi...

SEVEN DAYS IN JANUARY. WITH THE 6TH SS MOUNTAIN DIVISION NORDWIND

Wolf Zoepf has produced an extremely detailed account, part-memoir, part-combat narrative, covering the actions of 6th SS Mountain Division ‘Nord’ during the battles fought in Operation Nordwind, Alsace, 1945. Against the background of his divi...

SLAUGHTERHOUSE: THE HANDBOOK OF THE EASTERN FRONT 1941-45

With the opening of long-sealed Soviet archives beginning in the 1990s, English-speaking readers have begun to better comprehend the enormity and decisive nature of the fighting between Germany and her many allies and the Soviet Union. Despite the...

SLEDGEHAMMERS Strengths and Flaws of Tiger Tank Battalions in WWII

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The Tiger and King Tiger tanks gained legendary status during World War II. Numerous tank commanders attained phenomenal numbers of kills and accomplished extraordinary feats during combat in these tanks, increasing the legend ...

SWEDES AT WAR: WILLING WARRIORS OF A NEUTRAL NATION 1914-1945

Books addressing the experiences of soldiers of the major combatant nations in the World Wars are important and popular with military historians and buffs alike. However, never before has anyone had the opportunity to examine the experiences of th...

THE FINAL CRISIS COMBAT IN NORTHERN ALSACE, JANUARY 1945

The Final Crisis is a rare account and insightful analysis of the fierce combat in Lower Alsace during Operation ‘Nordwind’ in January 1945, one of the last major German counterattacks during the war. From an hour before the last New Year's Da...

THE GOOD SOLDIER

The Good Soldier is an insightful and revealing memoir of the son of a staunch Austrian Social Democrat family who served in Panzer Grenadier Division ‘Grossdeutschland’ during some of its most momentous battles, and survived four years of Soviet ...

VICTIMS, VICTORS From Nazi Occupation to the Conquest of Germany as Seen by a Red Army Soldier

As a teenager in Nazi-occupied Ukraine the author had one aim in his life, "I had a dream: to survive until our guys got back, become a soldier myself, get a submachine gun, and head westward with them. Our forces weren't moving westward, however....

VICTORY WAS BEYOND THEIR GRASP: WITH THE 272ND VOLKSGRENADIER DIVISION FROM THE HÜRTGEN FOREST...

As the Allies arrived at the frontiers of Germany itself in the last autumn of World War II, the beleaguered Third Reich responded with a variety of technical and tactical innovations designed to help its shattered forces regained a strategic init...

WAFFEN-SS ENCYCLOPEDIA

World War II spawned some of the most famous—and infamous—fighting organizations the world has ever known. None was more feared by its battlefield foes or more hated by political enemies of the Nazi regime than the Waffen-SS. Six decades after the...