24 April 2008

Books Published by German Soldiers

I highly recommend that military enthusiasts read as many primary source books about WW2 as possible ie. books by the soldiers who actually fought in the war.

Here is a list of books written by German soldiers and leaders from WW2:

1. Field Marshal Erich von Manstein: "Lost Victories"
2. Field Marshal Kesselring: "Memoirs"
3. Field Marshal Keitel: "Memoirs"
4. Grand Admiral and President Karl Donitz: "Twenty Years and Ten Days"
5. Grand Admiral Erich Raedar: "My Life" (also titled "Grand Admiral")
6. Der Fuhrer Adolf Hitler: "Mein Kampf"
7. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel: "Rommel Papers"
8. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel: "Infantry Attacks"
9. Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: "The Goebbels Diaries"
10. Minister of Armament Albert Speer: "Inside the Third Reich"
11. Albert Speer: "Spandau: The Secret Diaries"
12. SS Major General Kurt "Panzermeyer" Meyer: "Grenadiers"
13. SS Panzer man Willy Fey: "Armor Battles of the Waffen SS: 1943-45"
14. SS Panzer man Otto Carius: "Tigers in the Mud"
15. Wehrmacht Chief of Staff of the Army and Inspector-general of Armored Troops Heinz Guderian: "Achtung Panzer!"
16. Heinz Guderian: "Panzer Leader"
17. General Hasso von Manteuffel: "The 7th Armoured Division"
18. General of the Luftwaffe Fighter Arm Adolf Galland: "The First and the Last"
19. Air Commodore Johannes Steinhoff: "Messerschmitts over Sicily"
20. Johannes Steinhoff: "The Final Hours"
21. SS Standartenfuhrer Otto Skorzeny: "Skorzeny's Special Missions"
22. Adolf Hitler: "Hitler's Second Book"
23. General of the Luftwaffe Fighters Adolf Galland: "The First and the Last"
24. General Bayerlein: "The Private Afrikakorps Photograph Collection of Rommel's Chief-of-Staff"

25. General F.W. von Mellenthin: "Panzer Battles"
26. von Mellenthin: "German Generals of World War II"
27. General Siegfried Westphal: "The German Army in the West"
28. Heinz Schmidt: "With Rommel in the Desert"
29. General Siefried Westphal: "Answers to Questions asked General Westphal"
30. General Westphal: "The Fatal Decisions"
31. SS Radio Operator Karl Metzger: "Honor Denied"
32. General Walter Warlimont: article
The Decision in the Mediterranean 1942 in "The Decisive Battles of WWII: The German View", edited by H.A. Jacobsen, 1965
33. General Warlimont: "Inside Hitler's Headquarters 1939-1945" (in German?)
34. General Bayerlein: "From Afrikakorps to Panzer Lehr"

Colin
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