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Infantrymen of the Air | Military History Book | Helion & Company

 

Giving credit to my source - a new book from Osprey by Robert Forczyk on desert tank warfare.
https://twitter.com/UbiqueVir/status/1539861914817380353

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384 pages w/ photos, profiles, illus & maps - hardcover (Osprey Publishing - February 14, 2023).

 

Hmmmmm... https://ospreypublishing.com/robert-forczyk

All the best

Andreas

 

Sits up, pays attention. Thinking about how much money to save, and realising I have plenty of time, so I can still eat and drive next month!

 

I am not exactly skeptical but... reserved in my interest. Will this present anything new? Will it just be a rehash of what has been written before? I don't know.

 

Oh dear, hope it is not as weak as "Case Red".

 

I'm always concerned about Osprey picking up such a wide-ranging topic. Their desert tactics book isn't that great. I liked the Duel Italian Torpedoboat/British submarine (not just because it quotes me), but with much of their stuff it doesn't scratch the surface or does so in the wrong way. And then to give this to someone who has not been anywhere near the desert war... Hmmmmm....

All the best

Andreas

 

I like it just because it has Crusaders on the cover.

 

Now available:
Sabrestorm Publishing – Operation Aerial – Its been worth the wait!

 

I'm normally simple like this too, but they've got the wrong camo scheme and are lacking the CRUSADER markings, so it just doesn't do it for me in the Tankp0rn department.

All the best

Andreas

 

I've had some glimpses of how Jeff does his work, and this should be a work of the type where you can rest assured that if it doesn't cover any aspect of the subject, that aspect isn't of any relevance whatsoever.

All the best

Andreas

 

Available as of now from my website: https://knittelbooks.com/sgk/

In November 1984, a 60-year-old war veteran from Gariboldi, Oregon, wrote a letter to the mayor of Stavelot. In the Second World War, Frank Warnock had been a 1st Lieutenant in the 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th US Infantry Division. On the 22nd of December 1944 he had discovered the remains of twenty-three murdered civilians in the garden of the Legaye-Crismer house in Stavelot. He shared some of his recollections and this resulted in an extensive exchange of letters between him and local historians. In one of these letters Warnock reflected on what he had written to them:

“Is there anything in these pages to suggest that haughty, arrogant bestiality is exclusive to the Hitlerite German? Certainly not. It was there long before Hitler and will remain among all races, cultures, colors, religions for a hundred or thousand generations to come. Until sanity comes to the human race. All groups on each of the continents have committed horrors on others or to each other. We have all tried to sweep our own horrors under the rug, but if we dare to peek a little, there they are. Staring back at us. All of us.”

After I had written and published my Gustav Knittel biography, a feeling remained that the victims of the 'Schnelle Gruppe' had been neglected. I had named them and had described their fate, to the best of my ability with the available sources, but they were still people who only came into view when they were murdered. They had no face, no life, no history before that horrid day in December 1944. I had to try to rectify this and, in fact, the same was true for the perpetrators. I mentioned them in Knittel's life story, but the lower ranks in particular remained one-dimensional perpetrators. The seed for this new book had been sown.

All the veterans who helped me with my first book have passed away but I could go back to their children, back to the archives, the written memories, fellow researchers and, above all, back to Stavelot. The judicial documents had been embargoed for decades, but now the Belgian archives finally begun to reveal their secrets. And with the help of tireless 'Sherlock' Vincianne Boulanger, the new research gained momentum. She interviewed the last living eyewitnesses and their relatives told her about the victims. This includes her own father, Yvon Boulanger, whose grandmother, aunt and cousins were murdered by the SS.

While I finalised the manuscript for this book about a massacre that took place seventy-eight years ago, there is war in Ukraine and reports of new outrages echoe what happened in Stavelot all those years ago. Sadly, we have to conclude that Frank Warnock was right.

21 chapters
450 pages
295 photos
56 documents
8 maps

 

Coming from Osprey in April 2023. Going to have to get it me thinks.

 

Another book that just popped up on my radar:
Haarr, Geirr H. and Tor Melien
The Sinking of the Blucher: The Battle of Drbak Narrows, April 1940
London: Greenhill Books - Forthcoming March 2023

Haarr is one of the best historians writing on Norway in 1940 and every book he's written is worth getting if you have any interest in the subject.
Will definitely be getting this one too.

And coming in May 2023
Fighting in the Dark: Naval Combat at Night: 1904-1945
by Vincent O'Hara (Editor), Trent Hone (Editor)

 

Looking forward for this one to come out:



Expected next September.

See: The Army that got away: The German 15. Armee in the summer of 1944





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Oh yes indeed. Their other two books were superb. This is a must!

 

Interesting title. Osprey, IMHO, has been falling short of expectations as of late, but this one looks good.

BTW, is the 23 list already on the blog? Or did you get the intel through other more devious means?

 

Both very palatable...

BTW, this lad Haarr is earning my respect very fast! (as if he cares )

 

I'd agree that they can be very hit and miss. They do cover a lot of obscure subjects which other pubishers ignore.
And the list isn't up yet. My devious means consist of going to Amazon. Doing a search in books under Osprey publishing and then sorting by publishing date. Works for any publisher actually.

Happy searching