Free Download Gordon Williamson, Ramiro Bujeiro, "Knight’s Cross, Oak-Leaves and Swords Recipients 1941-45"
English | 2005 | pages: 68 | ISBN: 1841766437 | PDF | 24,7 mb
Osprey’s survey of the recipients of the Knight’s Cross and Oak-Leaves andSwordsawards during World War II (1939-1945). On 21 June 1941, as the Wehrmachtstormed forward across the frontiers of the Soviet Union, Hitler instituted a new higher grade of the Knight’s Cross decoration for gallantry and leadership: the silver clasp of the Oak-Leaves with Swords. It would be awarded to only 159 men of the approximately 15 million who served in the German armed forces during World War II. This third in a sequence of four titles describes and illustrates a selection of the recipients: from much-wounded front line infantry officers, to Hitler’s ‘brother-in-law’; from a sergeant pilot fighter ace, to the commanding general of the greatest tank force ever gathered on the Russian Front.
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