Gents,

As some of you might know; one of my passions is collection self/privately published memoirs. I have quite a few in my possession. Most of these manuscripts/books are being sold by the vets themselves, or their familiy and in some cases the associations they belong to.

Vets are passing away far too quickely and many of these manuscripts become more difficult to come by.

I would like to know whether any of you are familiar with these publications and know where they can be obtained.

Books published by (big) publishing houses will in most cases be readily available one way or the other. These self published ones probably wont.

If any of you can help me to titles, names of authors or point me to where I can obtain these books, please let me know.

TIA

Stevin

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"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" - Homer Simpson

Those are the best books! The ones which are not best sellers but are full of feelings and experiences... I am not saying that marshall Von Bock's war diaries or Halder's memoirs are more or less interesting than any private's or sargent's ones... They just show different things and feelings...

I have got my both grandfather's diaries. But Obstlt. Von Hammerstein und Hartmann stills keeping his. But I have captain Jolly's ones all for me. I have actually posted one of the chapters here and will post more.

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

Go to the vets section and get RKT Martin Drewes's address and writ to him about his book. He gave me a copy of it earlier this year. Martin Drewes was a Night fighter Pilot with about 53 victories.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Carl :

What was Herr Drewes's charge for his work ? Was it in Deutsch ?

thanks pal !

E

Hello Erich--I think it was about $17.00. And it was in Deutsch.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.