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Panzer Leader (War and Warriors Series)

37 reviews
Heinz Guderian

Noontide Press / Legion for Survival of Freedom, 1988

Valuable Details on WWII Battles: Blitzkrieg 1939 and Warsaw Uprising
I focus on matters not elaborated by the many other reviewers, and this review is based on the original (1952) edition. Guderian claims that the Pomorska Cavalry Brigade charged German tanks with lances, "in ignorance of the nature of our tanks" (p. 72). This contrasts with western accounts, which blame Polish impetuousness and foolhardiness for this supposed act. In actuality, the Polish ...

The life of Dylan Thomas: Constantine Fitzgibbon

1 review
Constantine FitzGibbon

J.M. Dent & sons, ltd, 1966

Classic
This remains a classic biography of a towering figure in English literature and an individual almost Greek in his tragedy.Dylan Thomas is an irresistibly appealing figure.From boyhood,he was in love with the English language."Dragoon", he once said to his sister when they were children, "isn't that a lovely word?"Fitzgibbon weaves Thomas's life into a narrative of the first order,beginning with ...

Commandant of Auschwitz : The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess

11 reviews
Constantine Fitzgibbon, Rudolf Hoess, ...

Phoenix Press, 2000

A Lone Wolf Writing His Diabolical Story in Prison
This is an eerie book. I suppose I expected to find a monster leering at me from page one, but the book has more layers to the story than that. It was creepy to start off by feeling drawn into the story of his childhood. I had a sense that Hoess enjoyed the process of writing. After everything he had perpetrated - after all the suffering he'd witnessed - to sit in a prison cell and write the ...

High heroic: A novel

1 review
Constantine FitzGibbon

J. M. Dent, 1969

a must for Michael Collins fans
As in most fiction dealing with Collins, you should really have a basic factual grounding about him before you read this novel. Fitzgibbon does not/not follow factual details in his book. However, the atmospherics ring completely true to what I've read about Collins, given that the author is engaging in speculation about how Collins may have felt and thought. Well-written, lyrical in many ...

The Black March: The Personal Story of an S.S. Man

8 reviews
Peter Neumann

Bantam Books, 1985

Publisher confirms -- not a fake!
I love this book! It is well written and an honest account of what went on in the Nazi SS. I don't know why anyone would make up a rumor that it is a fake. I wrote to the publisher of the first English translation, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, to make sure, and they confirmed it is a true autobiography. The manuscript was passed by Peter's family in 1956 to Editions France-Empire, who published the ...

20 July
Constantine FitzGibbon

Berkeley, 1968

Stalingrad

3 reviews
Heinz Schroter

Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1992

Little Known Treasure
This is an older, near contemporary account from the German point of view with great military detail on some things you can't get elsewhere. Not much from the Soviet side and not much before the encirclement, but it covers well its area of focus.