Research Catalog

Title

Blood and steel 2 : the Wehrmacht Archive : retreat of the Reich, September to December 1944 / Donald E. Graves.

Author

Graves, Donald E.

Publication

• Barnsley, S. Yorkshire : Frontline Books, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Description

xxi, 202 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm

Subject

• Germany > Heer > History > World War, 1939-1945 > Sources

Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Stemming the Flood Preparing to Defend the Reich, August to November 1944 -- Goebbels Scrapes the Barrel -- Message from Field Marshal Model -- The Siegfried Line -- Orders to Hold the Scheldt Estuary -- October 1944: Field Marshal Model Exhorts -- Creation of the Volkssturm, October 1944 -- Goebbels Sums Up the General Situation, 27 October 1944 -- Order of the Day by Field Marshal Walter Model, 9 November 1944 -- The Goebbels Grenadiers -- The High Command Discusses Surrender -- Major Eberhard Furst von Urach -- ch. 2 Practical and Impractical Measures for Improving Morale on the Western Front -- ̀Fuhrer Words' and Battle Songs -- To the Last -- Well Almost -- Behaviour of Officers -- Festung Walcheren -- Battle Creed of 2nd Parachute Division -- Special Awards for Snipers -- Analysis of Mail -- A Propaganda Company Officer Reports on Morale on the Western Front -- Hunger at Dunkirk -- ch. 3 The Individual Soldier's Experience Diaries, Letters, Reports and Memoirs -- Extracts from the Diary of a German Officer captured by Belgian Partisans -- Experience of an Officer of the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier Division Gotz von Berlichingen, June -- November 1944 -- Calais Calling -- A German Account of the Arnhem Battle, September 1944 -- Life on Walcheren in the Autumn of 1944 -- The Thinking Sergeant -- Morale of Pilots -- ch. 4 The Home Front -- War Comes to a German Family -- Diary of a Nazi Girl -- A Race-conscious Nazified Girl -- Roetgen -- Six Weeks after US Occupation -- ch. 5 Formation and Unit Organization and History -- Organization of the 107th Tank Brigade, September 1944 -- Report on Status of Parachute Divisions Encountered in France -- Hermann Goering Reserve and Training Regiment -- Organization and History of the Flying Bomb Regiment -- History of the 279 Magen (Stomach) Battalion -- In Memoriam: 3rd Parachute Division -- ch. 6 Tank and Anti-Tank Weapons and Tactics -- Tactics of German Assault Gun Brigades -- Assault Gun Tactics -- German Tiger Tank Tactics -- German Battlefield Recovery of Armoured Vehicles -- Use of the 88mm Pak 43 Anti-Tank Gun -- Using the Panzerfaust as a Flying Mine -- ch. 7 Infantry Tactics and Weapons -- Defensive Position of 858th Grenadier Regiment -- Employment of Company and Battalion Reserves -- A German Regimental Commander's Critique, 91st Light Infantry Division -- German Night Fighting Tactics -- Enemy Sniping Methods -- ch. 8 Recruiting, Replacements and Training -- Manpower in the German Army -- The Formation of New German Divisions -- Reinforcement Situation in Italy, Autumn 1944 -- The Sad Story of Battle Group Gobel -- Recruiting and Training of Officers in the German Army -- Training of Officer Candidates -- German Recruiting Methods 1944 -- ch. 9 Problems Desertion, Discipline, Transport and Food -- Desertion in the German Army -- Discipline in 606 Division -- German Courts-Martial -- The Supply Transport of a German Division -- German Rations and Messing -- German Army Rations -- ch. 10 Propaganda -- The Watch on the Rhine -- Skorpion Tells All -- German Counter-Propaganda Measures -- The Power of the Written Word -- Don't Listen, Friends -- It's Treason -- ch. 11 German Assessments of Allied Troops -- German Intelligence Notes on the Arnhem Operation -- The German High Command Discusses the American Soldier -- What Germans Think of American Soldiers -- Enemy Interrogation Report of a Talkative Allied Soldier -- What the Enemy Thinks of Americans -- ch. 12 In Enemy Hands The Experience of Allied and German Prisoners of War -- German Interrogation Methods -- Interrogation at Aachen -- The Pride of the Wehrmacht -- ch. 13 Humour (Such as it Was) -- Sieg Heil by Numbers -- Let the People Speak -- Quick, Herman, the Scissors.

Call Number

JFE 15-4293

ISBN

• 9781848328518
• 1848328516

LCCN

60002020571

OCLC

913770172

Author

Graves, Donald E., author.

Title

Blood and steel 2 : the Wehrmacht Archive : retreat of the Reich, September to December 1944 / Donald E. Graves.

Publisher

Barnsley, S. Yorkshire : Frontline Books, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Standard Identifier

60002020571

Research Call Number

JFE 15-4293