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http://bjorn.foxtail.nu/images/germans_small.jpg I just got this photo, and the uniforms puzzle me. There are no insignia to speak of, two of the tunics appear to be SS M37's, but the belt buckles look like Heer buckles. The guy in the middle has a small badge on his lower left sleeve. The cheap-lo...

Doug Nash is a member here, and he has met Mr Sajer/Monminoux, too. "The Forgotten Soldier" is an old can of worms, but I tend to believe that he served on the Eastern Front, and that some professional editing would've straightened out most of the question marks the book raises.

While I cannot vouch for the English-language edition, I know that Martin Månsson (one of the authors) wasn't happy with the Swedish edition. The subject matter is very interesting, but at least the Swedish edition suffered from typos and some odd photo captions. That being said, considering the dea...

I found a paper in German (pdf), which describes the selection and training of junior officers in the Wehrmacht. My German is too poor for real understanding of the text; the relevant pages are 124-125 (133-134 on the left-hand pdf meny). I'm interested in the conditions from January 1940 - mid-1941...

Sounds like a typical Leandoer & Ekholm product - interesting premise, some great photos, but sloppy execution.

I've browsed my books, searched the forum, and tried to find to find a good online source, but haven't been able to find a good summary of the officer training system in the Wehrmacht (Heer, to be specific). What I would like is to know how the officer candidates were selected, how long their traini...

http://bjorn.foxtail.nu/images/lah39.jpg Here's the photo of resting LAH troops in Poland, 1939. It is from the Time-Life book The Reach For Empire , p 159. I have some questions about the insignia worn by the soldiers. I've read that during the invasion of the Low Countries in 1940, SS troops had ...

panzermahn wrote: German General Paper (I really had no idea which German newspaper Evans were referring)

Perhaps Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.

"Death Was Our Companion" was a very interesting read, so I'm pretty sure you won't be disappointed.

There's no dramatisation, no poetism Jukka. It's all there in the source material. I could, of course, simply post the sources and link them with a very loose narrative. But then the book would be five times thicker and never be published. I found "The Germans in Normandy" a very good read, so I'm ...

Christer Bergström's book Battle of Britain won't be published by Leandoer & Ekholm, as the author and publisher reached a settlement in court yesterday, cancelling the contract. And that's no lie.

When/if the LE Förlag books become available in English, it will be interesting to see what people think of them. Interesting notion, BTW, that one must be a publisher or author in order to be able to comment on books. Suddenly, about 98% of all critics will be unemployed.

As the publishers are at odds with their (former) writers, translators, authors and editors (this is in court now, AFAIK), it is highly doubtful that the book will be released in English. The book itself is a hodge-podge and a disappointment. One shall not belive what Hellqvist writes about us. He ...

Check this AHF discussion on the books and the publisher.

Which edition? I cannot find the passage in the British paperback or the Swedish edition. Can you please tell me which chapter, and if it is in the beginning, middle or end?