12-я танковая дивизия СС «Гитлерюгенд» без преувеличения является одной из самых легендарных дивизий немецкой армии периода Второй мировой войны. Укомплектованная личным составом ниже обычного призывного возраста, из-за чего часто именуемая дивизией «семнадцатилетних», она произвела подлинный фурор в период Нормандской кампании 1944 г., полностью окупив все вложенные в нее средства и...

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,...