Memoirs of a German officer, in which the author talks about his service in the Reichswehr, Hitler's Wehrmacht and the Bundeswehr. In 1960, Bruno Winzer, a staff officer in the Bundeswehr, secretly left West Germany and crossed into the territory of the German Democratic Republic, where he published this book - the story of his life.

The author describes to the reader the campaigns from the Dneipr to the Visla, Oder and the storming of Berlin. The book is not, however, merely a re-telling of these battles, the author was himself a soldier in the ranks of the advancing Soviet Army.

The assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo started a chain of events that led to the beginning of World War One. It lis less clear, in the eyes of the author, as to why security was minimal for the Archduke, how dangerous was the 'Black Hand' organization and who stood to benefit from the destruction of the old man of Europe?

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...