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The book I would like to nominate is "The Right Kind of War" by John McCormick. It is the story of the Third Squad of the elite Marine Raider batallion. It has one of the best stories I've ever read about the jungle Warfare between the US Marines and the Japanese army. In this story, which...

Just would like to review this very good book that can be bought "cheep" at Edmond Hamilton for $9.99. A great read for very little, escpecially compared to some expensive military books thta don't deliver, but I digress... This is without a doubt the most detailed and knowledgeable descri...

Just found this while surfing the Web. Its listed on Amazon> i guess the only drawback is its in Spanish The link is >>http://www.amazon.com/A-STEP-TOWARD-JUSTICE-SPANISH/dp/B000UWL6FG<< The title is : A Step Towards Justice "A factual and powerful document, being photographic coverage of the t...

I found my copy in a Thrift store for $3.00 in excellent condition.

I'm sorry, the fact that he was a Knight's Cross winner was taken form the following German passage: "In Waldheim zum Tode verurteilt und hingerichtet wurde auch der Ritterkreuzträger Friedrich Heinicke. Er erwarb sich schon den Ruf eines Satans als SA-Sturmführer und Stellvertreter des Lagerle...

On April 11,1950, the SS Ritterkreuztrager Friedrich Heinicke was executed in the DDR. He was the Kommandant of Torgau.

Does anyone know anymore about this man?

Thanks,

Carlos

Some of my favorite German/Eastern Front war books not mentioned yet: "The Invisble Flag" by Peter Bamm (Dr, Curt Emmerich):The srory of a battalion surgeon on the Estaern Front from begining to end.Great story. " Rise Up in Anger" bt Stefan Olivier. A novel about a Wehrmacht off...

Lt. Gunther Blomertz, 4./JG-26, 1 Mosquito claimed May 3,1943, shot down and badly burned on 24 June,1943 by 78th FG. He bailed out and returned to the Geschwader a full year later, on July 31,1944,but was never released again for flight duties. Ended the war as Second Gruppe/JG-26 Adjustant. "...

If you read the short biography, it states he ran into the propeller

Found his name through an Internet search. He was Friederich Heinicke the "Henker of Torgau". Does anyone know any thing more about this individual?

While surfing through the DDR Nazi Trial Website, I came accross this link http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/ddr/ddropferengfr.htm, which had the name of a commander of Torgau Prison who supposedly was executed after the war. Unfortunately the last name is abreviated so the name appears to be Friedrich H...

Just a passing thought. I was looking at another post concerning a Volks Artillery unit and noted the amount of captured Russian pieces, one of a 122mm unit and also a 152mm unit. In the late war period, would it be an exageration to say that 20% of the Wehrmacht artillery strength was composed of c...

In an online essay about Nazi Military Justice, the author noted that two Wehrmacht Generals were executed by flying court martials.

Can anyone identify the two Generals?

Major Siegfried Freytag, an fighter pilot with 102 victories flying Bf-109s joined the French Foreign Legion after the war. He served as a infantry NCO on Indochina. He spent the rest of his military career in the FFL and eventually retired to the retiremnt home run by the Legion in France,where he ...

I've been reading about the Eastern Front since 1968 and would still recoomend "Barbarosa" by Alan Clark as the best book to first read about the Eatsern front. Yes, it it outdated,lacking maps (it does have some)and only concentrates on some areas, but it makes up for this by introducing ...