Fur Volk and Fuhrer

Panzer Gunner is a unique memoir of a Canadian serving in a German armored division. Bruno Friesen explains what it was like to fight in a tank on the Eastern Front and provides details on the battlefield performance of the Panzer IV tank. Six months before World War II erupted in 1939, Bruno Friesen was sent to Germany by his father in hopes of a better life. Friesen was drafted into the Wehrmacht three years later and ended up in the 7th Panzer Division. Friesen experienced intense combat against the Soviets in Romania, Lithuania, and West Prussia. 

Wounded five times and awarded numerous decorations for valor, Gottlob Herbert Bidermann saw action in the Crimea and siege of Sebastopol, participated in the vicious battles in the forests south of Leningrad, and ended the war in the Courland Pocket. In his memoir, he shares his impressions of countless Russian POWs seen at the outset of his service, of peasants struggling to survive the hostilities while caught between two ruthless antagonists, and of corpses littering the landscape.

Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to D-Day and victory, Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company, which kept getting the tough assignments. Easy Company was responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. Band of Brothers is the account of the men of this remarkable unit.

Wolfgang Faust was the driver of a Tiger I tank with the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer Battalions, seeing extensive combat action on the Eastern Front in 1943-45. This memoir is his brutal and deeply personal account of the Russian Front's appalling carnage. Depicting a running tank engagement lasting 72 hours, Faust describes how his Tiger unit fought pitched battles in the snows of Western Russia against the full might of the Red Army.

Die SS-Männer Heinrich und Manfred sind seit ihrer Hamburger Schulzeit befreundet. Beide sind in Weißrussland im Einsatz, wo es 1943 zu einer gnadenlosen Jagd auf Partisanen kommt. Als der SS-General Steiner bestialisch ermordet wird, soll Heinrich den Fall aufklären. Ein Partisan verrät ihm, dass er in Manfreds Auftrag Steiner in einen Hinterhalt gelockt hat. Denn Manfred will das Gold, das Steiner im Osten zusammengeraubt hat. Und dann gibt es kein Halten mehr. Im August 1943 erklärt die SS weite Teile Weißrussland zu "toten Zonen" - Landstriche, die von Partisanen und Juden "gereinigt" werden sollen. Eine grausame Hetzjagd beginnt.