On 22 June 1941, Hitler s armies launched Operation Barbarossa and swept in to the Soviet Union. On the same day, the Spanish Foreign Minister, Ramon Serrano Suner, contacted the German embassy in Madrid with an extraordinary proposal would the Germ…

A comprehensive and up-to-date study of the combat and logistics vehicles which formed part of the German contingent that fought in the Spanish Civil War alongside the rebels. The Panzer I, which so surprised the world in the Polish campaign and ini…

Revised and updated with a new introduction by the author--and available in English for the first time--the moving story of a man who always wanted to be a father and the long emotional road to making his dream come true. Born in Cuba and raised in…

This book is the first detailed look in English at the German Legion Condor's motorized Flak Abteilung F/88 in the Spanish Civil War. Along with organiztional and operational histories, are detailed looks at flak guns, range finders, trucks and towi…

In October 1936 two German ships arrived in Spain loaded with a Panzer I company and all the services and personnel to establish Francos armys first armored unit, the so-called Panzer-Gruppe Drohne. The Third Reich chose a pioneer in the development…

In 1935, after a lengthy production process, the Panzerkampfwagen I was introduced into the Germany Army. Germany had been disallowed from producing tanks after World War I, but Panzers were secretly built to introduce the concept of armoured vehicl…