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ON THE RUN
When a Heinkel 111 was shot down over England one night in July 1940, its crew parachuted to safety and inevitable captivity. However, as Andy Saunders reveals, three of the crew went on the run and had some extraordinary adventures before being caught.
INDIRECT FIRING DEVICES
As the war in the east ground on relentlessly after the launch of Barbarossa in 1941, a new menace in the war there emerged: snipers. The Wehrmacht turned a WW1 solution which allowed rifles to be fired from cover without exposing riflemen to danger.
A LAST APPEAL TO REASON
With the fall of France in 1940, only Britain stood in the way of total victory and Hitler ordered preparations for invasion: Operation Sealion. First, Hitler made one last appeal to Britain for ‘reason’. Martin Mace tells the story, presenting some unique photographs.
MAPPING BARBAROSSA
How Germany tracked its progress along with Red Army dispositions during the ultimately doomed invasion of the Soviet Union is told by Kevin M Boylan who outlines the story of the large-scale daily situation maps produced by the Wehrmacht.
MEIN SOHN
When the Luftwaffe launched two heavy tip-and-run raids against Hastings and Bournemouth in May 1943, they were attacks that saw heavy military and civilian casualties on the ground and losses to German units involved in that day’s operations.
A PROVEN PROWESS
Not all Luftwaffe fighter aces became household names in Germany. Regular Iron Cross contributor, Chris Goss, examines the life and death of one such fighter pilot who served from the Battle of France through to his death over Northern Europe in 1944.
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OPERATION MARNESHUTZ-REIMS
Florian Wein charts the background and progress of Imperial Germany’s last offensive of the First World War on the Western Front as its army attempted to cross the River Marne and push forward into Allied territory in an operation which ended in failure. The author looks at what happened on the Marne in July 1918 and visits the battlefields, focussing on the Würtembergische Gebirgs Regiment
BOOK REVIEWS
We review a range of new German military history titles with the ‘Editor’s Choice’ this time going to Reiner Decher’s study on the fate of Nazi Germany’s jet engineers.
PRODUCT REVIEW
In one of our occasional product reviews we put the spotlight an exciting and emerging history guiding app which goes under the name of @guidl - an app which will be of enormous benefit to military history enthusiasts. It is seeing many Iron Cross authors as contributors!
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