Achtung Cavalry
German Horse Cavalry Divisions - Eastern Front, WWII
Then German Army in World War Two, beginning with the Polish Campaign,
then the French campaign and finally the Russian campaign, employed cavalry
brigades, divisions and corps that fought from horseback against the tanks,
machine guns, artillery and aircraft of the modern armies fighting against
them. They were later joined by first one, then three Waffen SS cavalry
divisions. German horse cavalry played important combat roles during the
retreat from Russia and the fighting in Hungary as well as the siege of
Budapest.
Achtung Cavalry reveals the secrets of those German cavalry units
organization and employment. It is also the story of their brave horses that
perished by the thousands in combat on the Eastern Front. Some of the
units described in Achtung Cavalry: German Army 1st Cavalry Brigade;
German Army 1st Cavalry Division; German Army Cavalry Regiments on the
Eastern Front; the 3rd and 4th German Cavalry Divisions, in Hungary: 1944-
45.
Barbarossa Trap
Red Army Traps the German Army
When the German Army invaded the USSR in 1941, it was a pre-emptive
strike. The German Army knew that the Red Army was advancing towards
the borders of German-occupied Poland. So, that improvised a major
strategic preemptive strike into the USSR. What the German Army did not
know was that the huge horde of Red Army troops advancing towards their
start line in Poland were carrying out a dual-option plan. If the Germans did
not respond, all of Europe would be invaded. On the other hand, if the
German Army invaded the USSR, a huge strategic trap composed of Soviet
reserve army groups assembling on the Red Army's deep left and right
flanks, would ensnare the German Army in a vast Barbarossa Trap. That
Barbaroosa Trap would first bleed the advancing German Army by numerous
combinations of attack and defense. Then, when the German Army was over
extended and German traitor generals had sabotaged supply and
reinforcement, the USSR would launch the strategic offensive phase of the
Red Army's Barbarossa Trap. The Barbarossa Trap worked with incredible
success. The German Army in the USSR was crippled by the Red Army's
counter offensives in the winter of 1941-42. If you want to learn something
about one of the most important aspects of World War II that is never
mentioned by the established media and publishers, you should read
Barbarossa Trap. The only publishers who have dared to address this
suppressed subject is QuikManeuvers.com, which brings it uniquely to the
American readership with the shocking ferocity of a coup d'etat.
Battle Leadership
German Army Secrets (written by Captain Adolph Von Schnell, 1933)
Battle Leadership is a book describing the verities of military maneuver and
leadership psychology that are just as valuable today as they were in World
War I's close combat on the Russian Front. Such principles of close combat
and military maneuver are as useful today for the soldier, war gamer,
historian, and/or guerrilla fighter, as they were to the World War I German
Army. The man who wrote the book, who has been dead for fifty years, was
not a World War I general. He was a junior officer in the German Army who
learned his leadership psychology and military maneuver art in the crucible
of close combat on the Russian Front in World War I. It does not take a
World War I general, a German Army veteran of close combat on the
Russian Front to understand the principles of leadership psychology and
close combat described in Battle Leadership. It is now available at a very
reasonable price to the readers of QuikManeuvers.com.
Commando Raid
British Commandos of World War II
Although the British commandos are mentioned in every history of World
War II, very little detailed information is available. Commando Raid focuses
upon the organization and tactics of British commando battalions. However,
some attention is given to large-scale fighting as well as micro-tactical
combat. Most of the material in Commando Raid is devoted to British
commando exploits during the World War II years 1940-1942. Although the
commando idea was good, British commando units were poorly organized. The
commando raid was the main type of combat carried out by British
commandos. The Saint Nazaire commando raid, the Varengeville commando
raid, and the commando raid on General Rommel's headquarters are covered
in some detail. The book is not a complete and detailed description of British
commandos, but instead captures the essence of their organization, training,
and tactical level combat during World War II.
Commissars
Communist Enforcers in the Red Army
In World War II, the Red Army would have collapsed by 1942 without the
pressures exerted by Red Army commissars. Commissars were fanatic Soviet
officers, placed at all levels of command, whose purpose was to ensure that
the common Red Army soldier would continue to fight as zealously as
possible. The commissars ruled by terror, and utilized the communist in
every unit as well as NKVD troop units that were embedded in most Red
Army combat forces to ruthlessly quell any deviation from the commissars'
warfighting norms. The commissars also used two carrots along with their
sticks. They insured that the fear-crazed soviet infantry was fed daily
doses of vodka and continuous propaganda messages crafted to instill hatred
of the Germans and acceptance of death. For those more intelligent soldiers
who didn't swallow the commissars' lies, there were the penal battalions.
The Red Army in World War II had hundreds of penal battalions, which
were forced to spearhead attacks across enemy minefields and into the
teeth of enemy fire. No soldier in a penal battalion survived the war. Red
Army commissars also created Sniperism as a propaganda device to inspire
and motivate the poor, fearful Red Army infantry that was dying in the
hundreds of thousands. The commissars were everything that is ugly and
hateful in the human psyche. It is a rotten irony that so many of them
survived while millions of the men they forced to fight lay dead.
D-Day Combat
Invasion & German Counterattack
Of the 175 books currently available on D-Day, or the invasion of Normandy,
France in 1944, none of them really go into deep detail about the German
side of that campaign. None of the books explain how the German
commanders, officers, and units perceived the various situations and
problems relevant to the invasion of France, and how they dealt with them.
Almost no books give complete descriptions of the German units that
actually fought in the battles around Normandy, and how they faired. In an
ostentatious search for "bling" most writers about D-Day grossly gloss over
the most interesting aspects of that campaign. In answer to this historical
deficit, QuikManeuvers has brought forth D-Day Combat. D-Day Combat
reports, from the German standpoint, the German Army's reaction to the
invasion of France in 1944, especially its numerous counterattacks. There
are many books on D-Day fighting, but they merely skim the surface. D-Day
Combat is an in depth series of reports by German Army officers who were
there in France in 1944. They discuss German Army organization and
reaction to D Day as only professional experts can do. Read D-Day Combat:
Invasion and German Counterattack and learn about what happened in France
in June 1944, from several new angles.
Hitler's Commandos
Abwehr Brandenburg Commandos Special Operations
In 1935, German Intelligence (the Abwehr) initiated the creation of the
world's first full-fledged special forces organization. Although the
Brandenburg soldiers were called commandos, they were far more than that.
They carried out every type mission, for example, that is now employed by
the American Green Berets. Among those missions were: long range
reconnaissance, long range direct action, the recruitment and formation of
indigenous troop units, decapitation operations, spearhead or advanced
detachment operations, and a variety of coup de mains. In accomplishing
those missions, they used every form of desant including: amphibious,
parachute, foot mobile, and glider.
This book describes the salient adventures of the Brandenburg Commandos
that culminated in the last days of the Third Reich, when the Brandenburg
Panzer Grenadier Division fought to the end to protect Reich and Fuhrer
while bitterly remembering the betrayals of Canaris. Although the men of
the Brandenburg fought with both courage and imagination in defense of
their nation, the agency that formed them, the Abwehr and its chief,
Canaris, were both traitors. In fact, Canaris and the Abwehr betrayed every
German secret in WW2 and carried out numerous sabotages that cost
thousands of German lives. This book is an eye-opener, and a bargain at any
price.
Hitler's Last Ditch, 1945
German Army Fortresses in the East, WWII
In 1944 and 1945 millions of Soviet troops and tens of thousands of Soviet
tanks swept irresistibly toward the borders of Germany. Most German Army
generals, punch-drunk, panicky, and dreaming of peace, believed the Reds
were unstoppable. However, Hitler maintained his combat spirit and created
the Strategic Operational Breakwater Concept (and we're not talking about
the wet pants so many German generals had from already fearfully breaking
water). Hitler conceived of a series of fortified cities and zones that would
simultaneously attract Soviet divisions, impede logistics efforts, and
increase enemy casualties. It would all end in the decisive Berlin's battle of
1945. Hitler's Last Ditch discusses how well Hitler's fortress city ideas held
up, as over ninety percent of his dispirited or traitorous generals sabotaged
the Breakwater Concept. The reader will learn what went wrong and how it
could have worked. It all ended in Hitler's Berlin Bunker.
Italian Paratroops
Italian Paratroop Glory, WW2
During World War II the Italian Army earned a bad reputation as cowards,
a reputation that has been reinforced in Iraq. However, a minority of the
Italian Army in World War II was ranked among the best soldiers in the war.
The best among Italy's elite were Italian parachute troops. The Folgore
Paratroop Division was the best parachute unit in the Italian Army. Italian
Paratroops is a book about the Italian paratroops and is the most
comprehensive book available on the subject anywhere. Although the
Hungarian, Japanese and Romanian armies all established paratroop units
during World War II, the Italian Paratroop corps was second only to the
Germans in size and combat lethality. It's all here, the training, the battles,
the aborted Malta operation, and the brilliant achievements of Italian
paratroopers. Italian Paratroops describes in detail the amazing
performance of the Folgore Parachute Division during the Battle of El
Alamein when the small regiment-sized Folgore Parachute Division destroyed
the equivalent of a British tank division. Italian Paratroops is a book about
warriors and glory. The Folgore Parachute Division exemplified both and in
the process saved the reputation of the Italian Army.
Japanese Paratroopers
Banzai From The Sky
Japanese Paratroopers is the largest and most comprehensive book available
on Japanese parachute troops in World War II. Japanese Paratroopers
describes the organization, training and strange tactics of Japanese
paratroops. Although Japanese army and navy paratroop forces were third in
size of all the Axis armies, behind Germany and Italy, their quality left much
to be desired after 1942. In spite of the fact that Japanese paratroop units
distinguished themselves in 1941 and 1942, in the years thereafter Japanese
paratroop performance rapidly deteriorated although the size of the
Japanese paratroop force increased. Japanese Paratroopers describes the
eccentricity, peculiarities and glory of Japanese parachute troops.
Kwantung Army
Japanese Generals vs. the Red Army, Manchuria
This is the story of the strange Japanese Kwantung Army that defended
Manchuria against the Soviet Union's far eastern Red Army groups from
1939 to 1945. It is the story of inept Japanese generals who never learned
how to beat the Red Army in Manchuria. This book has a dual focus, upon the
Kwantung Army and Japanese generals in particular. Fact-filled information
is provided for the happy reader that is available nowhere else on the
Internet. The Kwantung Army, Japanese generals, opium, and a number of
bloody battles with the Red Army are interwoven into the war mosaic
encompassing the cordite shrouded mountains and plains of Japanese
Manchuria.
Last Campaigns
The Soviet Conquest of Hungary in 1944
In 1944, Soviet army groups were grinding across the borders of Hungary.
Hungarian morale was shaky, and the German Army generals wanted to
retreat. Suddenly, Hitler demanded that the Axis forces in Hungary attack
and the Last Campaigns began. First, Hitler sent reinforcements that won
the Battle of Debrecen in 1944, raising German army morale. To protect the
Hungarian oil fields and rescue a besieged Budapest, Hitler then sent the
powerful 6th SS Panzer Army and General Balck's vaunted 6th Army to
Hungary's Lake Balaton area. The SS troops knew that they were fighting
the Last Campaigns. Included among the panzer army's sub units were
several elite SS Panzer Divisions, the 1st SS Panzer Division, the 5th SS
Panzer Division and the 12th SS Panzer Division.
Together, the two armies of that powerful panzer army group fought the
Russians during several campaigns that ended in May 1945. This is their
story. But, it is more. It is the story of beleaguered Hungary, of German and
Hungarian infantry and SS panzer divisions fighting desperately to save
their countries against the onslaught of Russian, Rumanian, Bulgaria, and
Czechoslovakian enemies. Read Last Campaigns and learn what could have
been done, as well as how it all ended. More importantly, learn the fate of
the elite SS Panzer Divisions, the 1st SS Panzer Division, the 5th SS Panzer
Division and the 12th SS Panzer Division.
Loyalty is My Honor
Waffen SS Combat Leadership
It is now over sixty years since the end of World War II. However, the
world's fascination with the violently aggressive and pristine fury of German
Waffen SS combat units is only growing. Loyalty is My Honor describes the
origins of the German Waffen SS's supreme lethality and warrior ethos so
feared by many millions during World War II. Waffen SS combat power
stemmed from a most useful and workable system of Waffen SS combat
leadership. Loyalty Is My Honor describes some elements of that ethos and
utilizes certain characteristics of the SS Liebstabdarte Division and its
favorite son, Colonel Jochen Peiper to uncover some of the most important
facts about World War II. It would require several huge volumes to really
describe Waffen SS combat leadership completely. However, Loyalty Is My
Honor: Waffen SS Combat Leadership offers an excellent jump off point
and reveals some secrets that most historians are not aware of.
Murmansk Front
Winter War Strategy
The battles along the Murmansk front in Northern Finland lasted from 1939
through 1945. Murmansk Front tells the grim story of frigid cold and
relentless close combat in a winter war. The reader will learn how the ski
troops spearheaded offensives in weather so cold no motorized vehicle could
move. The secrets of the Finnish Army's unique approach to war are
revealed with the clarity of the arctic sunlight. Murmansk Front is an e-book
about sabotage by small special forces units, as well as huge offensives
carried out by hundreds of thousands of troops in a winter war. The variety
of wars fought in the Murmansk zone including the Winter War, and the
Continuation War are analyzed in stark detail. Murmansk Front is cold; it's
white, and filled with lethal dangers that can only be experienced in fighting
in a sub-arctic region.
Murmansk Front II
Warfare in the Finnish North in World War II
Murmansk Front II is a book about the German Army and Finland's Army on
the Murmansk Front during World War II. For most of each year, the
Murmansk Front was an arctic zone where ski troops fought. Although the
major objective along the Murmansk Front was the Murmansk Railroad,
Finland's Army of ski troops and the German Army spent a lot of time on the
defensive, in spite of the fact that they outnumbered the communist enemy.
This book includes a discussion of the German Army and Finland's Army's ski
troops and winter warfare tactics. Customers who have purchased The
Murmansk Front will find Murmansk Front II a source of further
information.
NKVD Terror
Soviet Secret Police Murder &Mayhem
NKVD Terror describes the numerous layers and intensities of terror used
by the NKVD to suppress and control Soviet subjects during World War Two.
The Soviet NKVD was involved in espionage, frontline combat, mass murder,
partisan warfare, the operations of penal camps and units, mass deportations,
and a variety of frauds and deceptions. Soviet NKVD mass murders are the
most heinous of their crimes. In modern Russia today, there are hundreds of
NKVD mass murder graveyards. In those blood drenched killing fields tens
of thousands of innocent NKVD victims rot, piled one upon the other. Soviet
NKVD espionage was so efficient that they not only infiltrated all the
decision-making levels of Hitler's Germany, but also the highest levels of the
USA and Britain as well. Although NKVD Terror is a good-sized book, we at
QuikManeuvers consider it an introductory volume. Like the mass murder
gravesites in modern Russia, Soviet NKVD suppression, mass murder, and
espionage was so widely spread that it would take twenty volumes to catalog
only some of its major points. QuikManeuvers has pledged itself to make
public the heretofore hidden criminal record of NKVD Terror.
Panzer Elite
Wehrmacht Panzer and Assault Units
Panzer Elite describes the best German Panzer divisions deployed on the
Eastern Front, with the exception of the Waffen SS Panzer Divisions and
the GrossDeutschland Division (see QuikManeuvers' book GrossDeutschland).
Since this is a book about elite units that did not fit into the above
categories, it does include a description of an elite German Army infantry
division, the vaunted 78th Sturm Division. This book emphasizes the Panzer
Lehr Division, the Parachute Panzer Division Hermann Goring, and the two
Fuhrer Divisions, Begleit and Grenadier. These panzer elite shock units gave
powerful service to the Third Reich on the Eastern Front. Although the
Fuhrer divisions and the Panzer Lehr Division also fought on the Western
Front. Panzer Elite is the only book extant that offers the reader the
opportunity to compare the performances of the Parachute Panzer Division
Hermann Goring the Fuhrer Division (Begleit), the Fuhrer Division (Grenadier)
and the 130th Panzer Lehr Division.
Panzer Endkampf
German Panzer Divisions; Eastern Front, 1943-45
During the years 1943-45, as the German Army was driven steadily back
toward its own borders, approximately thirty German panzer divisions and
panzer grenadier divisions were the corset stays of the Eastern Front. The
adroit command and control of those divisions could have decided the war in
the Germans' favor by 1944. (By the middle of 1944, there was no longer any
real chance for the Third Reich.) During the research for this e-book, all
available manuscripts describing the experiences of German panzer troops in
World War II were carefully analyzed. Every book enunciated three lies: 1)
Hitler was to blame for all the mistakes made; 2) the German panzer
divisions were constantly under strength; and 3) the German panzer and
panzer grenadier commanders remained loyal to their troops and the German
people, in spite of their hatred for Hitler. Expert analysis of what really
happened on the Eastern Front contradicts all those assertions. Panzer
Endkampf scrutinizes and reports salient aspects of the operations of
twelve German panzer divisions in 1943-45, in order to reveal the truth. As
the reader will discover, German Army generals in World War II hid many
secrets. Among those secrets are: 1) German Panzer divisions were
frequently fully up to strength; 2) the most costly mistakes, which resulted
in the loss of millions of German lives, were made by German generals; 3)
many of those mistakes were in the form of sabotage, undertaken because
of a hatred of Hitler, regardless of its negative effect on the fortunes of
the German people. Panzer Endkampf investigates the decline of German
panzer divisions on the Eastern Front, by examining the frequently disloyal
and sporadically incompetent command behavior and operations of the
following German Army panzer divisions: 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 11th, 12th, 17th,
18th, 20th, 21st, 24th, and 25th. Read Panzer Endkampf and learn the real
truth.
Secrets of Stalingrad
How General Paulus Lost the War
For the first time since World War Two, a book is available that provides a
professional military analysis of why the Germans were defeated at
Stalingrad. Heretofore the Battle of Stalingrad has been depicted as a
stupid battle where Hitler's interference and stupidity caused the
destruction of the huge 6th Army. That mindless mantra has been repeated
endlessly as the explanation of what happened during the World War Two
Battle of Stalingrad. Books written on the subject then recount the same
details over and over, tossing in vivid descriptions of the unfortunate
Germans and "heroic" communist snipers. The real story behind the Battle of
Stalingrad has been entirely missed by every American and British author of
the past sixty years. Secrets of Stalingrad has utilized over-looked German
and Russian language reports and maps to piece together a totally different
story about what happened at Stalingrad. Finally the Battle of Stalingrad is
correctly explained. The culpability of General Paulus and General Sedylitz,
two closet German traitors, is precisely defined. The deficiencies of German
command along with specific acts of sabotage are clearly explained and
substantiated. Secrets of Stalingrad reveals how General Paulus lost the
Battle of Stalingrad and World War Two for Germany.
SS Parabellum
The 7th Prinz Eugen SS Mountain Division
The story of the Prinz Eugen 7th SS Mountain Division and the other Axis
units that fought the blood-thirsty Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia for four
years is just now being told. SS Parabellum kicks over the rocks, and sprays
what crawls out with 9mm slugs. The war in the Balkans was a war filled with
secrets. But more than anything, it was a war fought by the 7th SS Mountain
Division. The biggest secret of all was how the communist partisans grew
from a weak company-sized unit to a powerful army group of sinister
combatants within a year. In SS Parabellum, you will read about the anti-
partisan war carried out the 7th SS Mountain Division. You will learn how
German allies fought communist partisans including the unreliable Moslems,
the cowardly Italians, the ambivalent Cossacks, and the determined strong-
hearted Croats. The reader will be surprised by the large number of
foreigners who fought against Tito's communist partisans, knowing that if
the 7th SS Mountain Division lost, they would be inevitably slaughtered. The
war against Tito's communist partisans was a war of close combat, and no
quarter in the Balkan Mountains. If the German Army had employed more
armored and mountain troops in their war there, it might have been
different. The 7th SS Mountain Division was the key formations fighting for
Germany in the Balkans. Come, read the bloody story in SS Parabellum.
SS Paratroops Attack
SS Paratroops Assault Tito's Headquarters
SS Paratroops Attack describes the organization and operations of the
500th Waffen SS Paratroop Battalion in the Balkans in 1944, especially its
decapitation operation against Tito's headquarters. The SS paratroops ill-
fated Operation Knights Move was sent against the partisan leaders hideout
with the flimsiest of intelligence information about the enemy forces at that
location. The plan of operations of the 500th Waffen SS Paratroop
Battalion against Tito's headquarters was mediocre or worst, and drawn up
by a relatively inexperienced Waffen SS captain. SS Paratroops Attack
details the SS Paratroop Assault by the 500th Waffen SS Paratroop
Battalion on Tito's Headquarters and little known facts about that operation.
SS Paratroops Attack will rivet your attention.
Stalingrad Campaign
Secrets of the Most Famous Battle of WW II
Every book by American writers, now available on the World War Two Battle
of Stalingrad focuses upon recounting a time-line of loosely joined events.
Stalingrad Campaign takes a completely different approach to urban
warfighting. In doing so, it reveals secrets that none of the other historians
have described. For example, the battle is viewed realistically as a series of
engagements controlled by the German 6th Army commander, Fredrich
Paulus. His ill-conceived decisions and deployments are critically analyzed.
Precise focus is devoted to discussions of how General Paulus could have
organized and commanded the troops available. The importance of the 3rd
and 4th Rumanian Armies is also clearly examined. One of the many secrets
revealed in the book is the fact that one entire division of Soviet volunteers
fought on the side of the German Army at Stalingrad. In fact, 40-60% of
the combat personnel, nearly every German Stalingrad division, were
composed of Russian volunteers. The reader will learn that the World War
Two Battle of Stalingrad was not lost at Hitler's headquarters, but at the
6th Army headquarters on the scene.
Stalingrad Legacy
Stalingrad Secrets, After the Battle
There are many books about Stalingrad. They all share one salient failing.
They miss the mark entirely. The writers of the books, not being
experienced war fighting experts, do not understand the German Armed
Forces, Soviet Armed Forces, and the historical red flags that point like
bloody arrows toward historical truth. QuikManeuvers has produced several
e-books about Stalingrad that describe historical truths, ignored or unknown,
by the sheep-like historical commentators that wander in herds towards the
dustbins of history. Stalingrad was not only a battle, and a campaign, and a
traitor-shaped Armageddon, but it also left an indelible legacy.
Outside of Stalingrad, and after the Battle of Stalingrad was over,
numerous other battles were fought. Stalingrad Legacy: Stalingrad Secrets,
After the Battle describes aspects of the Stalingrad campaign and the
battles that were heavily influenced by it thereafter. Stalingrad was a huge
mistake that set off a chain reaction of mistakes. Stalingrad Legacy:
Stalingrad Secrets, After the Battle will reveal things to the reader that he
never knew before.
Waffen SS Cavalry
SS Cavalry Combat, Eastern Front
Waffen SS Cavalry is another unique QuikManeuvers.com publication, which
includes a wealth of material and combat analysis found nowhere else. The
organization, training, combat methods, and blood drenched battles of
Waffen SS Cavalry are described in a manner that will capture the attention
of any reader. The rich history of Waffen SS Cavalry is recounted from the
pre-war years through the final days of the Third Reich. Every one of the
SS Cavalry brigades and divisions fought on the Eastern Front. It was there
in the open steppes, tangled primeval forests, and burning cities such as
Budapest that Waffen SS Cavalry troops displayed the valor and steadfast
combat resolve that was expected of the Waffen SS elite. But the Waffen
SS Cavalry was more than that. They were capable of transitioning from
close combat to rapid deep penetration much quicker than pursuing SS
infantry. Suddenly, Waffen SS troops clinging to the steel hulls of assault
guns would crash forward, in a crescendo of fire and death. Fanning out to a
flank and seeing through the smoke dimly, would be Waffen SS horsemen,
racing to intercept the retreating enemy before they had time to control
their panic and dig in. Their advance was made more terrifying by the howls
of the Waffen SS Cavalry Hound Detachment. If the enemy did stop, the
Waffen SS Cavalry would loop around them in a wide enveloping maneuver.
As the half-drunk, fear crazed communist infantry trembled in the dirt; the
message that the war would soon be over for them was broadcast bye the
thundering hoofbeats of Waffen SS cavalry.