Wwiiar Eagles
- ISBN-10
- 1981079912
- ISBN-13
- 9781981079919
- Pages
- 391
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-05-12
- Author
- Donald E. Zlotnik
Description
If you are a combat veteran, this is a must read novel! WWII is ending. It is April 1945 and all the German generals are fighting desperate battles on all fronts. Oberstgruppenfuhrer (SS-General) Paul 'Papa' Hausser commanding Army Group-G conducting a controlled retreat through the Ukraine realizes his army group cannot sustain an organized front against the four Russian Army Groups attacking him. General Hausser realizes he must surrender to the Russians soon and decides to try and save the most decorated men in his army group from Russian reprisals. He assembles his top 40 heroes--all having been awarded the Knight's Cross and develops a plan for them to escape dressed as Russians.Most of the heroes drop out along the way and the story ends up focusing on four of the protagonists: Baron Alex-Paul Bergmann--who ends up in the American Zone. Tomas Hoeckner--who is taken to a British POW camp and then to the British Zone. Rolf Zissler--who ends up in the Russian Zone. Uwe Hass--in the French Zone.The storyline covers how each of them survives after World War II.Bergmann--develops a wine empire; Hoeckner joins the new German Army as a counter intelligence officer; Zissler, struggles to protect his family from the Russians and Hass--a cold-blooded SS killer and hit man continues his career.The characters are based on real life military men.
