The Kommandostab Reichsfuhrer-SS, the Hohere SS and the Polizeifuhrer in occupied Russia, the infamous Einsatzgruppen in cooperation with Sicherungsdivisionen and rückwärtiges Heeresgebietskommando and its commanders, all of them are discussed in this book. Different services were in command in occupied Russia. With and against each other. Additionally this book discusses the colossal losses at the Eastern front and the German arms, with, for instance, the Czech arms industry's share. Final...

Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over forty years, using resources that span the globe. This latest book, "The Last Tsar's Warriors" represents his largest project to date. The book provides information about the military careers of over 6,400 Imperial Russian generals and admirals that served the last Tsar, Nikolai II, during his reign 1894 - 1917, and also lists the order of battle of the Russian armed forces during those years. Included in Volume II of this bo...

In April 1988, the Vatican authorities provided a small sample of the Turin Shroud for carbon-14 dating of the alleged burial cloth of Jesus Christ. In October of the same year, coordinator Michael S. Tite presented the conclusion of the university labs of Oxford, Zurich and Tucson (Arizona) to the entire world press: the miraculous imprint of Jesus’ resurrected body on the shroud dated to 1260-1390 CE…

Even if we accept that the Turin Shroud indeed is a cloth from the 13th or 14th centur...

Vitéz Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over fifty years, using resources that span the globe. His latest book, “The Last Hurrah”, contains the military biographies of the seventy-two German generals and admirals who held high-level command positions during the last six weeks of World War II. Also included are brief overviews of those commands – their histories during the war and fates at the end of the conflict.

For his previous work on the Hungarian milit...

Hongarije vormt het onbekende sluitstuk van de lange destructieve politiek van nazi-Duitsland. Vanwege de olievelden ten zuiden van het Balantonmeer bracht Hitler zijn beste troepen in Hongarije op het slagveld. Sepp Dietrich, de commandant van het 6e SS Pantserleger, wilde Hitler voor zijn verjaardag de olievelden van het Roemeense Ploesti aanbieden. Het liep allemaal anders. Aan de oevers van de Donau vond een vreselijke krachtsmeting plaats. Na een titanenstrijd van tien dagen startte op 1...

Hungary rose as a nation state after the First World War, from the ashes of the Dual Monarchy. State regent and admiral without a fleet, Miklós Horthy, played a crucial role herein. The path to independence was far from simple for the Hungarians. Shortly after the First World War the communists staged a coup and the Entente Powers, and in particular the Pan-Europeans amongst them, tried thereafter to reinstate the Habsburg Empire.

This put Horthy, as former wing adjutant of the Austro-Hunga...

Sacred sites and places of power, energy lines or ley lines; these subjects are no longer unknown to many people. They are present as acupuncture points in the landscape and our ancestors used those thousands of years for their rituals, initiations and celebrations.In the past they were marked by ancient sacred stones, trees and springs, later especially by churches and chapels. Accurately placed as an expression of popular devotion, as beacons of hope and fear.Mysterious and unknown Belgium ...

Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over forty years, concentrating on Germany and her Axis allies, using resources that span the globe. This book, "The Royal Hungarian Armed Forces 1919-1945" presents the order of battle of the Hungarian forces, and the military careers of over 600 Hungarian generals. He has also authored/edited two other books on the subject of the Hungarian army: "The Hungarian Army and its Military Leadership in World War II" (published in 1996...