Book Review – Denis Winter, Death’s Men (London: Allen Lane, 1978)
Denis Winter’s Death’s Men is a classic of the new type of ‘bottom up’ history the emerged in the late 1970s. This new genre aimed […]
Month: May 2022
Book Review – Johann Voss, Black Edelweiss (Bedford, Penn/USA: Aberjona, 2002)
Black Edelweiss is Johann Voss’ account of his service in the 6th SS Mountain Division during the Second World War. In early 1943, aged 17, […]
Book Review – Paul Martelli, On the Devil’s Tail: In Combat With the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1945, and With the French in Indochina 1951–54 (Solihull: Helion & Co, 2015)
On the Devil’s Tail is the memoir of Paul Martelli and covers a decade of his life and military service fighting in the Waffen SS […]
Book Review – Wilhelm Pruller, Diary of a German Soldier (New York, USA: Coward McCann, 1963)
The Diary of a German Soldier is the journal of Wilhelm Pruller kept during his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. He […]
MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES PODCAST HIT OVER 500K DOWNLOADS!
The Mentioned in Dispatches podcast that I host and produce for the Western Front Association has finally reached over 500k downloads! The shaky journey to […]