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The cynic in me always tries to clock the publisher before the reviews when books like this appear on forums - and they are indeed almost always self-publishing services. Never bodes well when the book's got to the marketplace as a result of cash rather than on merit.

Thats a typo Its "Scheißbuch" "Shooting book. Marc Marc, I hope you realise that Scheißbuch means shitbook, while Schießbuch means shooting book? How comes that English speaking people often mix-up the [ei] and [ie] with eachother? One of my bugbears too, although it's understandable...

Jugendkrieger wrote:Scheissbuch

Is that a typo or a document I've not heard of? Interested to know if the latter, amused if the former

I'm sure the KILL IT WITH FIRE story was even mentioned in the concrete historical document that was the Sven Hassel series :lol: I'll find out which book when I have the time, but I'm 99% sure it was mentioned as though fact. Maybe that story was one of the many that developed into "truth"...

That's the thing though: ARE people paying these prices? Who's got 60-80 Euro to blow on a D-ring?? And if they do, they clearly can't be trusted with money

space cadet wrote:Guensche, who went to his death in 1983

No he didn't, he died in 2003

Otherwise, interesting article.

Hoffman Grink wrote:The Eagle Has Landed....*yawn*

Try

In a war as such there are no civilians.

WITHOUT GOOGLE!!!!!

Downfall?

The one group where NO ONE wants to be a Corporal...? :wink: Dont kid yourself, some weirdo will want to be that corporal in their clausette. Alas, this is potentially true. Would not a WW1 section be justified in a contextual sense? I'm sure it could be floated out in the initial stage with a few ...

The one group where NO ONE wants to be a Corporal...?

On 12th November 1943 all members of the 199.Gren.Regiment (57. Inf.Div.) were awarded the "Regiment List" cufftitle. This was because the regiment was directly decended from the 16.Res.Inf.Regt. which the Führer served in. This was considered a high honour during 1943-1945 to wear this c...

Would that be Dr. Neumann, 'taker' of Hill 109?

66,200 - forget the level though

Superb work, really enjoy these threads.

I believe they were part of 9th FJ Division, if that can lead off in the right direction for further reading.

The very same video