2006-12-30, 11:07
#361
2006-12-30, 16:05
#362
Wiking Jerk
Citat:
Editorial Reviews
Ursprungligen postat av Pansarmeyer
Hillblad, boende i Amerika, hade långt gångna planer på att stämma Wallin för detta, men avstånd och ålder gjorde att han avstod. Tydligen är berättelserna i boken Hillblads, men Wallin hamnade som författare. Detta uppdagades när det högerextrema förlaget Nordland skulle trycka en ny upplaga för en 10-15 år sedan. "Författaren" Bosse Schön har hela historien i en av sina böcker om de svenska SS-soldaterna. Karlen är förvisso en klåpare, men i stora drag får man anta att han har koll.
Book Description
Few new personal accounts by Waffen-SS soldiers appear in English; even fewer originate from the multitude of non-German European volunteers who formed such an important proportion of this service's manpower. Twilight of the Gods was originally written in Swedish, and published in Buenos Aires shortly after the end of WWII. Erik Wallin, a Swedish soldier who volunteered for service with the Waffen-SS, and participated in the climactic battles on the Eastern Front during late 1944 and 1945, later telling his story to this book's editor, Thorolf Hillblad.
Wallin served with the Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion, 11th SS-Panzergrenadier Division Nordland, a unit composed mainly of non-German volunteers, including Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes. The division enjoyed a high reputation for its combat capability, and was always at the focal points of the fighting on the Eastern Front in the last year of the war. During this period it saw combat in the Baltic, in Pomerania, on the Oder, and finally in defence of Berlin, where it was destroyed.
Erik Wallin served with his unit in all of these locations, and provides the reader with a fascinating glimpse into these final battles. The book is written with a 'no holds barred' approach which will captivate, excite and maybe even shock the reader - his recollections do not evade the brutality of fighting against the advancing Red Army. Twilight of the Gods is destined to become a classic memoir of the Second World War.
2006-12-30, 16:50
#363
2006-12-31, 02:46
#365
Var det inte Livius som lär ha följt devisen "Anekdoter är en förutsättning för all historieskrivning" ?
Vill minnas att Per-Albin Hansson ( enligt andekdoten) välkomnade general Erwin Engelbrechts 163.e infanteridivision med orden " Willkommen zu Ersatz-Deutschland, meine herren"
Vill minnas att Per-Albin Hansson ( enligt andekdoten) välkomnade general Erwin Engelbrechts 163.e infanteridivision med orden " Willkommen zu Ersatz-Deutschland, meine herren"
2006-12-31, 13:29
#367
2006-12-31, 15:36
#368
Nationalistiska piloter under Spanska inbördeskriget behövde en lösning för att leverera diverse känslig utrustning och mat till en belägrad fästning. Hur ska man göra då? Fallskärmar var det brist på. Någon kommer på den excellenta idéen att man kan fästa kalkoner som sedan får flaxa ner och fungera som en fallskärm och utrustningen klarar sig samt att dom isolerade får mat i och med kalkonen och detta fungerade! 
2007-01-01, 20:15
#370
Citat:
Ursprungligen postat av Rusen
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Few new personal accounts by Waffen-SS soldiers appear in English; even fewer originate from the multitude of non-German European volunteers who formed such an important proportion of this service's manpower. Twilight of the Gods was originally written in Swedish, and published in Buenos Aires shortly after the end of WWII. Erik Wallin, a Swedish soldier who volunteered for service with the Waffen-SS, and participated in the climactic battles on the Eastern Front during late 1944 and 1945, later telling his story to this book's editor, Thorolf Hillblad.
Wallin served with the Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion, 11th SS-Panzergrenadier Division Nordland, a unit composed mainly of non-German volunteers, including Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes. The division enjoyed a high reputation for its combat capability, and was always at the focal points of the fighting on the Eastern Front in the last year of the war. During this period it saw combat in the Baltic, in Pomerania, on the Oder, and finally in defence of Berlin, where it was destroyed.
Erik Wallin served with his unit in all of these locations, and provides the reader with a fascinating glimpse into these final battles. The book is written with a 'no holds barred' approach which will captivate, excite and maybe even shock the reader - his recollections do not evade the brutality of fighting against the advancing Red Army. Twilight of the Gods is destined to become a classic memoir of the Second World War.
Book Description
Few new personal accounts by Waffen-SS soldiers appear in English; even fewer originate from the multitude of non-German European volunteers who formed such an important proportion of this service's manpower. Twilight of the Gods was originally written in Swedish, and published in Buenos Aires shortly after the end of WWII. Erik Wallin, a Swedish soldier who volunteered for service with the Waffen-SS, and participated in the climactic battles on the Eastern Front during late 1944 and 1945, later telling his story to this book's editor, Thorolf Hillblad.
Wallin served with the Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion, 11th SS-Panzergrenadier Division Nordland, a unit composed mainly of non-German volunteers, including Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes. The division enjoyed a high reputation for its combat capability, and was always at the focal points of the fighting on the Eastern Front in the last year of the war. During this period it saw combat in the Baltic, in Pomerania, on the Oder, and finally in defence of Berlin, where it was destroyed.
Erik Wallin served with his unit in all of these locations, and provides the reader with a fascinating glimpse into these final battles. The book is written with a 'no holds barred' approach which will captivate, excite and maybe even shock the reader - his recollections do not evade the brutality of fighting against the advancing Red Army. Twilight of the Gods is destined to become a classic memoir of the Second World War.
Turerna kring denna bok är många. Dess sanningshalt samt dess verklige författare diskuteras bl.a på skalman forum och som sagt av Bosse Schön. T.om Antony Beevor använde den under sitt storverk om slutstriden i Berlin. Hillblad var i vilket fall ordentligt förbannad....
2007-01-04, 00:02
#371
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