Drama Between Budapest and Vienna: The Final Fighting of the 6th Panzer-Armee, 1945

Georg Maier, former Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the 6. (SS)-Panzer-Armee, has written not only a monumental history of his former field army but a sweeping account of the little-known fighting on the southern portion of the Eastern Front in the final months of the war. Maier provides a truly objective overview of those operations by making use of primary sources — documents, war diaries and surviving senior commanders — to show the reader how decisions were made at senior levels of command and how certain post-war memoirs have only distorted the picture of what really happened in the final few months of the war. As such, it encompasses the operations of four different Waffen-SS corps and, by extension, nearly all of the “name” divisions of the Waffen-SS.

Large Format Hardback. 475 pp., 16 pp. of photos, 124 appendices and a separate 32-page full-color map book.

Drama Between Budapest and Vienna