Book Review – Werner Kindler, Obedient unto Death (London: Frontline, 2019)
Werner Kindler’s Obedient unto Death is his memoir of service in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LAH) during the Second World […]
Month: July 2022
Book Review – Jiří Hutečka, Men under Fire. Motivation, Morale and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918 (New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2019)
Jiří Hutečka’s new interesting and novel new book explores the motivations that underpinned the morale of Czech soldiers fighting in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the […]
BOOK REVIEW – Thorolf Hillblad (Ed.), Twilight of the Gods [Account of Erik Wallin] (Mechanicsburg, PA/USA: Stackpole Books, 2009)
Erik Wallin was a Stockholm-born Swedish volunteer who fought in the Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion of the 11th SS-Panzergrenadier Division Nordland that saw action on the […]
Book Review – Otto Carius, Tigers in The Mud (Lanham MD/USA: Stackpole, 2020)
This memoir covers Otto Carius’ times as an officer in panzer units fighting on the Eastern and Western Fronts during the Second World War. He […]
Conbributors needed!
The Combat Morale Podcast is recording its second season and is looking for contributors. This is a new podcast that aims to provoke debate […]
Book Review – Erwin Bartmann, Für Volk and Führer: The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, (Solihull, UK: Helion & Co., 2013)
Erwin Bartman’s 2013 autobiography covers his early life growing up in 1930s Nazi Germany and his subsequent service in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte […]