It brings me great pleasure to be able to share with you Issue 29 of Iron Cross. Within its covers, you will find the usual selection of authoritative articles covering various aspects of German military history from 1914 to 1945....
Tony has worked in enthusiast publishing since the mid-1980s, initially being contracted as a photo-journalist whilst still at university in Western Australia. Moving to England in 1989 to take up the position of commissioning editor...
Many urban myths have come out of the Second World War, but one regularly aired is that German fashion house Hugo Boss was responsible for the designing of the iconic black uniform worn by the Schutzstaffel (SS). Jonathan Falconer reveals the...
This photograph, expertly colourised by new Iron Cross contributor Sean Clark, features ‘Slayer of Fortresses’ Major Egon Mayer standing on the starboard wing of a B-17F from the 94th Bomb Group that he had just shot down south of Paris on 14...
Flying the heavily armed Ju 88C on patrols over the Bay of Biscay in 1942–44, Kurt Necesany achieved a handful of victories against Allied multi-engined aircraft on longrange missions. These were hazardous sorties in an unforgiving...
After two successful blockadebusting voyages to North America, Deutschland and its sister-submarine ‘freighters’ then still under construction were armed and unleashed on Allied vessels following the US declaration of war on Germany...
One of the most effective weapons fielded by German infantrymen in the final years of the Second World War was the Panzerfaust – ‘Tank Fist’. In a follow-up to the article published in issue 15 of Iron Cross, Michael Heidler provides a...