CROSS OF IRON is the thrilling story of a German platoon cut off far behind Russian lines in the second half of World War II. A resourceful and cynical commander somehow manages to coax his men through the bitter hand-to-hand fighting in forests, trenches and city streets until eventually they re...
Dear Rolf, I am sitting on an old sandbar, tanned like a South Sea islander, dangling my feet in the water. And those feet need it, by God. Last night a Russian gunboat tried to make a landing. Krüger happened to be on guard and drove it off with his carbine. So he says. He spent two hours diving...
"There are sixty stretcher cases left in the houses," he told the general, who was busy working out plans for the counter-attack."Wait a moment," Stiller told him, and turned to Kreisel. "How high were your casualties?""About a hundred. Half of them are at Rozha...