Militares

The project of writing a two-volume, richly illustrated study of the German armoured unit, the (Wiener) 2.Panzer-Division, is to be completed in 2016. The author, Fre de ric Deprun, has devoted more than ten years to studying meticulously this armoured unit's engagements in the Norman bocage. The (...)

This second illustrated volume on the history and battles of the 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking" covers the period from May 1942 to April 1943. Formations of war volunteers from the Netherlands or Scandinavian countries formed a significant part of this elite division. The unit was deployed (...)

The Wiking Division was the only SS armored division exclusively to fight on the Eastern Front. True, it was partly composed of volunteers Flemish, Dutch and Scandinavian whose primary motivation - most of them - was to fight against Bolshevism. It fought with an energy never wavered even if the (...)