Feldgrau Author: Peter Mooney
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:37 pm
Hi to everyone. My name is Peter Mooney and I have had just had my second book published. It is titled 'Waffen-SS Knights and their Battles - Volume 1 1933-1942'. This work covers each Knight's Cross holder of the Waffen-SS in detail, using original documents as a source, backed up with personal accounts of the award holders themselves or the people that fought alongside them. This is more difficult in this first volume due to the fact that a lot of the 'early' guys are long since dead - this will get better in the later volumes. The work features new maps that will pinpoint the location of each award as the war unfolds. This is a chronological project and will follow through the rest of the war in the subsequent volumes.
The purpose of this project is to examine how close in time or location proximity did each award holder conduct their actions. Where they right next to one another or a thousan mles apart? Was it the same day or 5 years apart? This is something that I have always wanted to know and feel that something that has been missing from existing books. The maps took many months to draft alone, but I feel that they add to the project. Like some of the other authors on this Forum, I have been very lucky to have had direct contact with the Waffen-SS veterans, including some of the men that this work focuses on. I hope that the finished article does their memory (unbiased) justice.
It is published by Schiffer, as is my first book 'Dietrich's Warriors', which covers the history of the LAH's 3. Kompanie (Infantry).
I would welcome any feedback on these books, especially the new one as I am in the midst of volume 2.
The purpose of this project is to examine how close in time or location proximity did each award holder conduct their actions. Where they right next to one another or a thousan mles apart? Was it the same day or 5 years apart? This is something that I have always wanted to know and feel that something that has been missing from existing books. The maps took many months to draft alone, but I feel that they add to the project. Like some of the other authors on this Forum, I have been very lucky to have had direct contact with the Waffen-SS veterans, including some of the men that this work focuses on. I hope that the finished article does their memory (unbiased) justice.
It is published by Schiffer, as is my first book 'Dietrich's Warriors', which covers the history of the LAH's 3. Kompanie (Infantry).
I would welcome any feedback on these books, especially the new one as I am in the midst of volume 2.