Stephen G Fritz: 3 books
Frontsoldaten
The German Soldier in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
" Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot "the actions of simple soldiers?.I believe that true heroism lies in bearing this dreadful everyday life." In exploring the reality of the Landser, the average German soldier in World War II, through...
Endkampf
Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2004
At the end of World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fearing that retreating Germans would consolidate large numbers of troops in an Alpine stronghold and from there conduct a protracted guerilla war, turned U.S. forces toward the heart of Franconia, ordering them to cut off and destroy German units...
Ostkrieg
Hitler's War of Extermination in the East
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival. As the key theater of the war for the Germans, the eastern front consumed enormous levels of resources and accounted...