German Military Fiction
Explore gripping German military fiction with our curated list of top books. Dive into thrilling war stories, historical battles, and heroic tales from Germany's military past. Perfect for history buffs and fiction lovers!
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Cross of Iron
by Willi Heinrich
CROSS OF IRON is the thrilling story of a German platoon cut off far behind Russian lines in the second half of World War II. …
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
The masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time—with an Oscar–winning film adaptation now …
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The Road Back
by Erich Maria Remarque
The sequel to the masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back is a classic novel of the slow return of peace to …
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The Legion of the Damned
by Sven Hassel
Convicted of deserting the German Army, Sven Hassel is sent to a punishment regiment on the Russian front. He and his comrades are regarded as …
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SS General
by Sven Hassel
It was said that Stalingrad had been burning since August, ever since the first German bombs were dropped... Sven Hassel and his comrades are plunged …
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Monte Cassino
by Sven Hassel
The thunder of the guns could be heard in Rome, 170 miles away . . . Having survived the horrors of the Eastern Front, the …
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Blitzfreeze
by Sven Hassel
It was supposed to be Hitler's glorious conquest of Russia... The 27th Penal Regiment have been ordered to invade the Soviet Union. They are half-starved …
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Wheels of Terror
by Sven Hassel
Stationed on the Russian Front and now equipped with armoured vehicles, Sven Hassel and his comrades from the 27th penal regiment fight on remorselessly... All …
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Reign of Hell
by Sven Hassel
A sudden curtain of silence fell over the burning city. All that could be heard was the steady crackling of flames... Hitler's penal regiments advance …
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Comrades of War
by Sven Hassel
There were not so much people as animals. Sometimes small and frightened, huddling together in cattle cars, wounds gaping, tongues swelling even as they licked …
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Liquidate Paris
by Sven Hassel
I had a grenade in my hand. So, no doubt, did the English private. I tore out the pin with my teeth. Lay there and …
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Das Boot
by Lothar GĂĽnther Buchheim
It is autumn, 1941, and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. …
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The Blue Max
by Jack D. Hunter
The most coveted decoration in all of Germany, the Blue Max was the symbol of power, fame and prestige beyond ordinary mortals. This is the …
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The Hessian
by Howard Fast
Telling the story of the capture, trial, and execution of a Hessian drummer boy by Americans during the Revolution. This novel provides an opportunity to …
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A Soldier's Legacy
by Heinrich Boll
In 1943 Wenk, a German soldier guarding the Normandy coast, finds himself in a war where the main enemies are loneliness and misery. Corruption is …
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The Silent Angel
by Heinrich Boll
This long-supressed first novel from a Nobel Prize-winning author summons the full horror of war, while affirming the heart's capacity for love. Just days after …
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The Forsaken Army
by Heinrich Gerlach
On November 22, 1942, Russian forces closed around the 270,000 German soldiers who had come to take Stalingrad. Only a handful of these men ever …
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The Night of the Generals
by Hans Hellmut Kirst
The famous novel about three Nazi generals and a brutal wartime sex crime—and the inspiration for the celebrated 1967 film. “Superb... appalling.”—New Yorker. “The sentences …
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Officer Factory
by Hans Hellmut Kirst
The unfolding drama at the officers' training school is an incomparable picture of a conflict between honourable men and a barbaric regime in wartime Germany. …
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Forced March
by Leo Kessler
This is the first in the fictional series The Dogs of War, by Leo Kessler. It is 1942, and the Vulture's eyes gleamed as he …
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Devil's Shield
by Leo Kessler
This is the second in the fictional series The Dogs of War, by Leo Kessler. In the grey September of 1944, colonel von Dodenburg's SS …
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Claws of Steel
by Leo Kessler
This is the fourth in the fictional series The Dogs of War, by Leo Kessler. They had taken the most impregnable fortress in Europe, faced …
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SS Panzer Battalion
by Leo Kessler
It was January 1940. The Western Front was still paralysed, but, at the Adolf Hitler Kaserne, a new battalion of SS troops were being put …
