The Face of Courage by Florian Berger

[fknorr]

Hi I've received this wonderful book really love it unfortunately on page 403 I found it folded and the paper is not cut properly because it sticks out about an inch or more from the bottom and half an inch on the lower side. I'm just wondering if anybody has found this printing problem!

Rene Chavez
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My copy was perfect.

[stgeorge64]

I enjoyed the original German edition of this book published in 2004 and 2 days ago got the new English edition. Covering the 98 Knight's Cross holders who won the Close Combat Clasp in Gold, its even better in this new edition. The author covers each man in detail with biographical insight of their careers and information related to the primary awards being discussed. With 600 pages and nearly as many illustrations, the book is an obvious labor of love and the overall amount of material presented refelects that. I've always had a major interest in award holders under General rank and the vast majority of these men are in that catagory. The photos range from field shots, to portraits, to postwar images, many of the men studied (or their families) contributing material. I was close friends with several of them while they were alive and wrote with a number of others so enjoyed reading about old friends as well as seeing many previously unknown photos. I enjoyed the portraits the most. An explanation and data on the 2 awards is also given as well as a number of unconfirmed awards. I highly recommend the book with the hope the author continues his writing in a similar style, perhaps a book of Knight's Cross holders who also won the Roll of Honor Clasp.

Mark C. Yerger

I have finally purchased a copy of this book and as an avid historian of all Ritterkreuztrager, it really is hard to fault the quality and content of this book.

A full description of the contents have already been described in this thread so there is no need to go over old ground other than to say, the obvious amount of research work that has made this book such a success should be applauded.

I hope that Florian keeps up on this theme and standard of work in the future, a truly great book.

Regards Richard.

[stgeorge64]

Fran, how did you like MacLean´s two volumes overall? I have tried to find reviews of these two without any success. How extensive is the text in these two? I have seen his Camp Men which was really poor as it basically assembled a string of data without any decent analysis.

I have the 2 volumes on the 'Lufwaffe Efficiency Reports' you mention, and overall I wuld give them 7/10.

It is the signatures more than anything which caught my eye, some of them are extremely rare and seldom see the light of day.

Furthermore, it is good to see others than the same old Jagdflieger covered time after time and more of the lesser known RKT covered also.

Worth prchasing in my opinion.

Regards Richard.

[pasoleati]

Folks, this book is now available in a modestly priced softback from Stackpole Books.

[jrtk45]

Gentlemen

This is my first post and it is a question for help-Does anybody have an address or email to Florian Berger?
I found a website that he had with books but as i sent an email in the contact page i have not recived an answer,it seems that the website does not work.

I am grateful for any help in this matter. Regards John