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The Road of Slaughter: The Latvian 15th SS Division in Pomerania, January-March 1945
Seven weeks in the footsteps of the soldiers of the Latvian 15th SS Division facing the Red Army in Pomerania in sub-zero blizzards between January and March 1945. Some were Russian Front veterans but most were raw teenage conscripts. At Flederborn, they – along with 800 wounded comrades in a mercy column and thousands of fleeing civilian refugees – were caught in a Red Army trap on the Road of Slaughter. The result was carnage. Published in October 2023. Buy online at Helion.co.uk |
Up Against the Wall: The KGB and Latvia
A hard-hitting history of the Soviet security police in totalitarian Latvia – with Latvians as both oppressors and oppressed. Through the stories of people held as prisoners, never told before in English, Up Against the Wall details the methods of a brutal totalitarian regime and the bloody twists and turns of Latvia’s long and complicated relationship with the Soviet security police. This is not for the squeamish. Paperback and Hardback editions available. Buy online at Helion.co.uk |
Blood in the Forest: The End of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket
Blood in the Forest tells the brutal story of the forgotten battles of the final months of the Second World War. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler’s bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles along a front line of fields and forests in Western Latvia known as the Courland Pocket. Just an hour from the capital Riga, German forces bolstered by Latvian Legionnaires were cut off and trapped with their backs to the Baltic. The only way out was by sea: the only chance of survival to hold back the Red Army. Available in Paperback. Buy online at Helion.co.uk |
Fire and Ice: The Nazis' Scorched Earth Campaign in Norway
When Hitler ordered the north of Nazi-occupied Norway to be destroyed in a scorched earth retreat in 1944, everything of potential use to the Soviet enemy was destroyed. Harbours, bridges and towns were dynamited and every building torched. Fifty thousand people were forcibly evacuated and thousands more fled to hide in caves in sub-zero temperatures. Available in Paperback. Buy online |