Fallschirmjäger!

As you’ll surmise from the title, this is a book about the elite German paratrooper forces, but it’s not a history of the unit, it’s a collection of interviews that the author did with veterans over a number of years, plus extracts from diaries. As well as the expected wartime recollections there’s also quite a few stories that deal with the immediate aftermath of defeat and the kind and bad treatment that they received. With high quality paper and lots of photos, this is very much an interesting and personal view of the life of the paratroopers.

• Helion & Company

• ISBN 978-1-9140-5940-7

• 312 pages • Softcover • £25

GREG WAY