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I read Grenadiers by Kurt Meyer last year and it was a great read.

The action in Greece is covered so Ive been trying to see if I can find it in the CoTA scenarios. Low and behold its there. Excellent, I can now play out what the action he described.

Awesome! I'll have to re-read that section

Great book. Did you pick up the Stackpole Military History series edition of it?

Stackpole has a great series and I have read almost every one of them.

Here is a lit of a few I highly recommend:

Tigers in the Mud by Otto Carius
History of the 12th SS in two volumes by Hubert Meyer
Armor Battles of the Waffen SS 1943-1945
Panzer Aces I, I think by Franz Kurowski (sp?)
Panxer Aces II, same author

I've recently been reading some books by Michael Reynolds:

The 1st SS Panzer Corps in Normandy
The 1st SS Panzer Corps in the Ardennes and Hungary
and The Devil's Adjutant is waiting on the shelf

Reynold's quotes both Kurt Meyer and Hubert Meyer (the Chief of Staff of the 12th SS) about events in Normandy and derisevely refers to Kurt Meyer's accounts a "melodramatic", although he does recognize what a consumate front line leader Kurt Meyer was. I personnally found Meyer's writing exciting reading even if it was a bit melodramitic.

Yes its the Stackpole edition. Ive read Infantry Aces aswell which was another fantastic read.

Thanks Wodin. As if I'm not in enough mire with the wife what with Puresim 2007, TOAW III and COTA, you made me go an buy a book...Tigers in the Mud!!

Damn you....damn all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All great books. Reynolds also has:

Sons of the Reich: The History of II Panzer Corps

MEN OF STEEL : 1st SS Panzer Corps 1944-45

EAGLES AND BULLDOGS IN NORMANDY 1944 : The American 29th Division from Omaha to St. Lo, and The British 3rd Division from Sword to Caen

His two Normandy books were my favorites but I'm partial to that period.

Men of Steel was the first of Reynolds works I read.

I am currently in the middle of Steel Inferno.

I wasn't aware of the other works of his you mentioned.

I will have to take a look at those.

I have beem planning to pick up Infantry Aces as that is one of the few in the Stackpole Series I haven't read, along with Beyond the Beachhead by the well know wargame designer Joe Balkoski, which covers the actions of the 29th ID. Might be interesting to compare and contrast Balkoski's and Reynold's depictions of the 29th.

I'm in the middle of "Sons of the Reich" right now- just started the section on Market Garden, looking forward to the part about the Ardennes (as I'm working on BFTB scenarios). Isn't it funny how people who play the same game tend to read the same books?[:)]

Pieter

No doubt "Panzer" Meyer was a great commander.[8D]

He was also a convicted war criminal(for murdering Canadian prisoners), so one should read self-serving bios with a grain of salt.[>:]

Meyer was condemned to death, but his sentence was comuted to life by Eisenhower, then he was released after some years in Dorchester prison in N.B. Canada (some 10 miles from the city where I was raised - but I nevr knew in those days who he was).He remained an unrepentent Nazi after going back to Germany.

Henri

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No doubt "Panzer" Meyer was a great commander.[8D]

He was also a convicted war criminal(for murdering Canadian prisoners), so one should read self-serving bios with a grain of salt.[>:]

Meyer was condemned to death, but his sentence was comuted to life by Eisenhower, then he was released after some years in Dorchester prison in N.B. Canada (some 10 miles from the city where I was raised - but I nevr knew in those days who he was).He remained an unrepentent Nazi after going back to Germany.

Henri

Ive looked into this and by all accounts its not been proven. My ubderstanding was that he wasnt there at the time the attrocities were commited.

Also its horses for courses. All sides killed POW,s. Meyer had two of his men executed for murder and rape.

Not sure were you got the info he carried on being a Nazi when he got back to Germany?

Still lets just get back to the game hey?