From the realm of a dying sun volume 2

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The second part of a new history of IV. SS-Panzerkorps, which fought on the Eastern Front in the last months of World War II.



On Christmas Eve 1944, the men of the IV SS-Panzerkorps were preparing to celebrate the occasion as best they could. Taking advantage of the pause in the fighting around Warsaw, they looked forward to partaking in that most German of holidays, including the finest Christmas dinner their field kitchens could still prepare in this fifth year of the war. They had earned it too; after five months of unrelenting combat and the loss of many of their friends, troops from the corps headquarters, headquarters troops, and its two divisions - the 3rd SS Panzer Division “Totenkopf” and the 5th SS Panzer Division “Wiking” - were eagerly anticipating what the holiday would bring, including presents from home and perhaps sharing a bottle of schnapps or wine with their comrades.

This was not to be, for that very evening, the corps commander, SS-Obergruppenführer Herbert Otto Gille, received a telephone call notifying him that the 35,000 men of his corps would begin boarding express trains the following day that would take them from the relative quiet of the Vistula Front to the front lines in Hungary, hundreds of kilometers away. Their mission: Relieve Budapest! Thus would begin the final round in the saga of the IV SS-Panzerkorps. In Hungary, it would play a key role in the three attempts to raise the siege of that fateful city. Threatened as much by their high command as by the forces of the Soviet Union, Gille and his troops overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their attempts to rescue the city’s garrison, only to have their final attack called off at the last minute. At that moment, they were only a few kilometers away from the objective towards which they had striven for nearly a month. After the relief attempt’s failure sealed the fate of hundreds of thousands of Hungarians and Germans, the only course of action remaining was to dig in and protect the Hungarian oilfields as long as possible.
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From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 3

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The concluding part of doug nash s magisterial history of iv ss panzerkorps covering their actions as they retreated from budapest to vienna in the final months of the war in the closing months of world war ii with budapest s fall on 12 february 1945 and the breakout attempt by the ix ss gebir Uiterlijk 15 november in huis .. MEER INFO

Death on the Don

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Drawing on first hand accounts from veterans and civilians as well as previously unpublished source material death on the don tells the story of one of the greatest military disasters of the second world war nazi germany s assault on the soviet union in the summer of 1941 operation barbarossa Uiterlijk 15 november in huis .. MEER INFO

The Defeat of the Damned

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An operational history of the notorious dirlewanger brigade culminating in its destruction in budapest at the hands of the red army one of the most notorious yet least understood body of troops that fought for the third reich during world war ii was the infamous sondereinheit dirlewanger or the Uiterlijk 15 november in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 15 oktober 2020

Aantal pagina's: 552

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Sr. Nash

Hoofduitgeverij: Casemate Publishers

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 152 mm

Product lengte: 229 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 152 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 229 mm

Verpakking lengte: 229 mm

EAN: 9781612008738

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