books about: nordwind (conscience edelweiss operation)

books about: nordwind

books:

Gut gegen Nordwind
Daniel Glattauer

Zsolnay-Verlag, 2006

Gut gegen Nordwind
Daniel Glattauer

Hoerbuch Hamburg, 2007

The Nordwind Name in History
Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com, 2007

This book is part of the Our Name in History series, a collection of fascinating facts and statistics, alongside short historical commentary, created to tell the story of previous generations who have shared this name. The information in this book is a compendium of research and data pulled from census records, military records, ships' logs, immigrant and port records, as well as other reputable sources. Topics include: Name Meaning and ...

Seven Days in January: With the 6th SS-Mountain Division in Operation NORDWIND

21 reviews
Wolf T. Zoepf, Theodore Mataxis

The Aberjona Press, 2001

A little known, 7 days battle, is expertly analysed in the operational and tactical level
Although the emphasis that this book gives to the "technical" aspects of the operation "Nordwind" and the fine accuracy of the terminology may cause some readers to avoid it, it is a very interesting and thought provoking analysis of the battles that the famous 6th SS Mountain Division fought in Alsace. The first 56 pages are devoted to that division's operations in Finland where, in late 1944, ...

Entfachter Nordwind
Klaus Sojka

Books on Demand GmbH, 2005

The Final Crisis: Combat in Northern Alsace, January 1945

5 reviews
Richard E. Engler

The Aberjona Press, 1999

Gripping, compelling...a must have!
One of the best memoirs/battle accounts of any book on WWII. Meticulously researched, compellingly told, it will satisfy both the avid WWII reader and the scholar. Engler includes plenty of footnotes at the end of each chapter which demonstrates an unparalled research effort, one done with most care and then crafted into a wonderful narrative. This little-known but critical battle finally ...

Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-SS

56 reviews
Johann Voss

The Aberjona Press, 2002

I know how it was
This book is the memoir of a young German who in 1943 at the age of seventeen volunteered for the "Waffen-SS" (the military SS which was distinct from the political SS that ran the concentration camps) and subsequently served in the SS Mountain Infantry Regiment 11. He saw combat first at the Karelian front in Northern Finland against Soviet Russia and later at the Western front against the ...