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WORLD WAR II NAZI BOOK ABOUT THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF
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Flak vor! contains the story of Wehrmacht tank and Infantry units, but especially Flak-Artillery outfits and the important role they played in German successes in the Rußlandfeldzug, or the invasion of the Soviet Union. The rare book has captivating stories and dramatic pictures of experiences by Flak units at the front lines at East Front, from the Bug river to Moscow. The book paints an up-close gritty picture of daily battles and military life.
Flak vor! Mit unseren Panzern vom Bug bis vor die Tore Moskaus (Flak [Troops} in Front! With Our Tanks to the Gates of Moscow) is a World War II German book with material assembled by Gerhard Kirsch and Joachim Schulz-Werner and edited by Friedrich Mildner by order of “ein Flakkorps”. The 1943 book is dedicated to Fallen Comrades and starts with full-page portrait of and patriotic foreword by Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, followed by a full-page portrait and introduction by Knight’s Cross winner, General der Flakwaffe Walther von Axthelm.
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.... fleeing Russian women and children, marching Nazi foot soldiers, Russian POWs, war destruction, tank traps, RAD men trying to free Nazi supply equipment from the mud, an encounter with Countess Sophia Tolstoy (wife of Leo Tolstoy), etc., etc. Page 388 is the last page in Flak vor! and it has the musical notes and lyrics to the Marschlied der Flak.
Flak vor! Mit unseren Panzern vom Bug bis vor die Tore Moskaus was published by Wilhelm Limpert Verlag Berlin in 1943. This 80+ year old book has minor wear to the corners and edges of the hard covers, but the pages are in very good condition. The book has no odor.
Also for sale on USMBOOKS.com, a heavily illustrated 1940 Flak handbook, a rare Christmas 1943 Flak Battalion 809 (Italy) morale booster, and a Nazi book about RAD men assisting the Wehrmacht on the East Front between the Bug and Volga rivers. We are happy to combine shipping of multiple purchases!
USM book # 1407 |
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The 7-¼ x 10-¼ inch hardcover book is illustrated with two landscape watercolors, battlefield sketches and gritty action photos of Reichsmarschall Goering visiting Flak artillery troops, an 88mm anti-aircraft gun in front of a Wehrmacht towing truck, an exhausted decorated Luftwaffe paratrooper, captured Soviet airplanes, heavy war damage in Smolensk and other cities in what is now Poland, Ukraine and Belarus, battlefield graves, Nazi troops on the move and in battle, a frontline soldier concert, mud and dirt ‘enemies’, Nazi soldiers doing laundry, Nazi boot repair in the field, General der Flakwaffe Walther von Axthelm and his Chief of Staff, camouflaged artillery pieces (winter and summer), ....
FLAK VOR!
A 1943 NAZI BOOK WITH GRITTY PHOTOS OF THE FIERCE FLAK BATTLES ON THE EAST FRONT
