Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: AFTER THE RELIEF OF KOVEL April 1944 Map 1: The Eastern Front Part II: 5. SS-PANZER-DIVISION “WIKING” April 1944 Part III: OPERATION ILSE: PLAN OF ATTACK Map 2: German Front Line 4 a.m. 27 April 1944 Map 3: Plan of attack 27 April 1944 Photographer: SS-KB Ernst Kurbjuhn Photo Reports: Film Nr. 23 & 24 Photographer: SS-KB Alois Jarolim Photo Reports: Film Nr. 33 & 34 Photographer: Ernst Baumann Photo Reports: Film Nr. 126 - 132 Part IV: CONCLUSION OF OPERATION ILSE 27 April 1944 Map 4: German Front Line midnight 27 April 1944 Biographies Appendices Glossary Bibliography About the Authors Acknowledgements

About the Author

Douglas E. Nash Sr. is a West Point Class of 1980 graduate and a retired U.S. Army colonel with 32 years of service with various assignments including Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany, Cuba, and Uzbekistan. He served in a variety of units, specialising in Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations. He recently retired after serving as the Senior Historian of Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia. Remy Spezzano is the founder and owner of RZM Publishing, a company that has become a byword for high quality photo books on the German Armed Forces of the Second World War. As a specialist in the area of photo research, he has worked with some of the world’s preeminent national archives and gained access to numerous private collections to procure the finest photographic material produced by the German Propaganda units. The selected images are then enhanced using the most advanced photo-retouching techniques to obtain optimal visual appeal. These same rigorous standards are also applied to the graphic design and production of each book, which the publisher approaches like an artist intent on realizing his vision. The end result is a body of work that is world-renowned and includes RZM’s best selling God, Honor, Fatherland; Platz Der Leibstandarte and Kampfraum Arnheim.