U-BOAT!’ (Vol I)

Soft Cover - Only $14.95 each (plus $5 shipping).

This is the book that was written BY our Members. Chapters include:

‘The First Boat’ by GEORG HÖGEL
‘The Capture of U-505’ by Captain Dan Gallery
‘The Top Skipper’ – OTTO KRETSCHMER
‘An Old French Warship’ by ROBERTO RIGOLI
‘From Sailing Ships to U-Boats in Paradise’ by OTTO GIESE
‘Youngest Combat Skipper’ HANS-GEORG HESS
‘Last Voyage of U-3030’ by KREYMANN
‘The Gallant Degen’ - HORST DEGEN
‘First Skipper of U-505’ by LOEWE
‘Third Most Successful Skipper’ ERICH TOPP
‘Need for Improvement in Armament and Equipment’ by Großadmiral Karl Dönitz
‘Gallantry at Sea’ by SCHMOECKEL
‘A Hard-Drinking U-Bootfahrer’ DIETZ
‘The Drumbeater’ by REINHARD HARDEGEN
‘The Italian Submarine CAPPELLINI’ by WALTER AUCONI
‘Death of HMS ARK ROYAL by U-81’ by GERHARD RICHTER
‘USS BORIE and U-405 Duel to the Death’ by BOB MAHER
‘R-Boats from the Caucasus to Gibraltar’ by ALBERT NUESSER
‘What’s a Torpedo Between Friends?’ by LCDR HAL. McCORMICK
‘The U-Boats Begin to Surrender’ by JIM VIZIGIAN, USN
‘An American on a German U-Boat’ by LCDR MYLES GRAHAM

Each chapter contains the memories of one veteran of the war at sea.

SS PANZERGRENADIER –true story of WW II

Hardbound, 424 pages with many pictures & illustrations. Only $35 (plus $5 shipping)

Americans interested in military history have often wondered what made millions of soldiers of the Third Reich fight against overwhelming odds until the bitter end. They did this even though they had known for months, sometimes for an entire year, that for Germany the war was lost. Many of them returned voluntarily to their fighting units with unhealed wounds from prior injuries.

Hans Schmidt, at war’s end a twice wounded, 18 year old corporal in Hitler’s famed SS Leibstandarte Panzer Division, veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, the campaign in Hungary and the last desperate struggles in Austria, was one of them.

On 6 May 1945, he finally surrendered to American troops only to end up in one of the brutal stockades without shelter, little food, water that have been called ‘Eisenhower’s Death Camps’ where as many as a million German P.o.W.s may have perished after the cessation of the hostilities. Thanks to the kindness of individual G.I.s, Schmidt avoided being turned over to the Red Army, or other prolonged imprisonment in Allied custody.

In this book, Hans Schmidt, who emigrated to the United States shortly after the end of the war and became a U.S. citizen many decades ago, tells his story with frankness, and with an uncanny ability to answer the questions American readers may have about the Third Reich, the Hitler Youth, the Waffen SS and many other facts connected with World War II. He does not shy away from such sensitive subjects as the Malmedy Massacre in December 1944 or the destruction of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane by SS troops in anti-partisan reprisal action in June of 1944. Schmidt tells the German side of the occurrences.

American veterans of the Battle of the Bulge and WW II may be interested to know what their counterparts in this momentous campaign thought of them and how they lived and felt in that cold winter in the Ardennes so long ago.

While reading this book, one must remember Hans was only a kid during this war – just 18 at the end of the war. Your book will be HAND-SIGNED by HANS SCHMIDT!

“The Men from U-995”

by Hans-Georg Hess

This is the book written by the youngest combat submarine Skipper of World War II and possibly of any war. Oberleutnant zur See der Reserve Hans-Georg Hess had just turned 21 years of age and he was given command of this frontboot based in Norway. Hess was a brave and fearless Skipper and at a time when German U-Boats did not return from their first war patrol, Hess commanded U-995 on five successful war patrols. He is now a Doctor of Law in Germany, still in practice.

You’ll receive the book in German (softcover) with the hand-signed signature of Hans-Georg Hess and you will also receive the English translation.

Order “The Men from U-995” Only $30 (plus $5 shipping)

“Red Griffins over Russia”

by Baron Georg von Zirk

This is the story of Georg von Zirk, a German teen living in Poland when the Blitzkrieg invasion came through. He joined the Luftwaffe and we see his training and the war as he saw it, from the cockpit of a Heinkel He 111 bomber. This book tells the story of the air war as Georg lived it…..the battles, the sorties over targets in Russia, the training with the laughter…..and the combat and the tears. This book contains the World War II memories of one airman. This softcover book contains many photos from the author’s private collection as well as other sources.

The book is in English and is hand-signed by Baron Georg von Zirk

Order “Red Griffins over Russia” Only $30 (plus $5 shipping)

“von Inseln & Shiffen”

by Captain Harry Braun

This means ‘of Islands and Ships’, written by Captain Harry Braun, who has since begun his ‘Eternal Patrol’. Here he tells of his time in the U-Boats in World War II, then covers his travels as a civilian. This interesting softcover book is in German, and your copy is hand-signed by Captain Braun.

We want to move out the last few we have – but remember, once they are gone, there will be no more, so the price is a mere $10 each (plus $5 shipping)