The 12th SS Panzer Division ‘Hitlerjugend’ is, without exaggeration, one of the most legendary divisions of the German army during World War II. Staffed with personnel below the usual draft age, which is why it was often called the ‘seventeen-year-old’ division, it created a real sensation during the Normandy campaign of 1944, fully recouping all the funds invested in it and earning recognition...

The publication is a detailed and most complete description of the history of the three-month battle of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 in the area of the Taipaleen-Yoki River (now the Burnaya River), on the easternmost flank of the Mannerheim Line. The book is based on numerous archival and documentary sources and gives a broad idea of the conditions of military life of both Soviet and...

Rudolph Peterskhagen was a colonel in the Knights Cavalier and was gravely wounded near Stalingrad. After his recovery he was named commander of the city of Greifsvald [Neuenkirchen, Germany]. In the spring of 1945, not wanting more senseless death, Peterskhagen gave the city to the Red Army. This was the only instance in which the Red Army took a city without combat. In the early 1950's,...