Mark C. Yerger Libri

Focusing on the interests of model builders and vehicle enthusiasts, this photo album offers a rich collection of images and information about SS holders of the Knights Cross. It serves as a valuable resource for memorabilia collectors, showcasing significant historical details and unique visuals that cater to a diverse audience interested in military history and modeling.

This biography of Ernst August Krag, offers a close look at one of the elite troops most decorated officers. Examining his career from the pre-war armed SS to 1945, the detailed text covers his entire wartime career including accounts of the combats resulting in his award of the German Cross in Gold, Knights Cross and Oakleaves to the Knights Cross. Details of his personal assault gun, numerous camouflage uniform shots, award presentations and Krag with other famous officers of Das Reich. The English text is also presented in German.

Holder of the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves and Swords, Otto Weidinger was the last commander of SS-Regiment "Der Führer". Among the best field officers of the Waffen-SS, he graduated from SS officer school and served throughout the war. This fully revised and expanded edition of his authorised biography provides a wealth of information for the historian and military collector. Lavishly illustrated with over 130 photographs and documents, many never before seen, the volume covers Weidinger's military career and life in complete detail. This vastly expanded classic is an essential study of one of the most decorated officers of the 2.SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich".

The commands, units and leaders of the General SS are finally compiled into a single detailed reference book for both the historian and SS memorabilia collector. This complete volume begins with an explanation of the twelve administrative and command main offices involving the SS to include the development, components and functions of each, as well as their respective office chiefs. The following section explores the most powerful posts in the SS, the Higher SS and Police Leaders, along with the subordinate SS and Police Leaders found in occupied territories - both the commands and the individual holder of these posts are examined in depth. The SS Main Districts are covered next including all their various subordinate components, title changes, development, commanders and chiefs of staff. The more than forty SS Districts follow, detailed in a similar format. Examining the more than one-hundred and twenty-five SS Foot Regiments in the General SS, the names and ranks of the hundreds of commanders, as well as details of unit location changes, popular and honour titles as well as other data for each are within a separate chapter. Finally, the elite SS Riding Districts and Regiments are covered similarly. Career biographies are included for more than two hundred senior SS commanders, many of whom served portions of their career in the Waffen-SS, Polizei, SD and other facets of Himmler's commands. The biographical data for individuals alone adds vast detail to this fascinating topic. Along with more than 120 rare photos of SS senior ranking officers and seven maps, a detailed index allows referencing of individual commands or personalities. Mark Yerger is also the author of Riding East, The SS Cavalry Brigade in Poland and Russia 1939-1942; Images of the Waffen-SS, Chronicle of Germany's Elite Troops; and a biography of SS-Strumbannfuhrer Ernst August Krag (all three titles are available from Schiffer Publishing Ltd).

In "Totenkopf" volume II Mark C. Yerger begins with a detailed overview of the officer and combat arms schools related to the Waffen-SS. The topic is especially relevant to the earliest Waffen-SS divisions with "Totenkopf"personnel being trained by this system while many school instructors also served with the division. Starting with the prewar Jun

Focusing on the SS Cavalry Brigade, this book explores its origins from General SS mounted units, detailing its formation, operations, and key figures, particularly Hermann Fegelein. It covers the Brigade's activities in Poland during 1939-40, its evolution into two regiments in 1941, and their anti-partisan warfare in Russia. The narrative includes in-depth analyses of summer 1941 operations, especially in the Pripet marshes, and the Brigade's near annihilation during the 1942 Russian offensive. The text is richly documented with photographs, maps, and organizational charts.

Honoring Those They Led examines specific points and groups within a massive subject: commanding generals of World War Two German field commands, with those primarily studied being among a select group to have one or more of their highest combat decorations presented by Adolf Hitler. The book provides in-depth details on a diversity of subjects - i