Recommended reading on awards, badges & decorations

[Marcus]

The idea of this sticky is to collect recommendations on good books dealing with the Axis awards, badges & decorations.

Please post the title, author and a short (or long) explanation as to why you feel that particular title deserves to be included.

/Marcus


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[Marcus]

For the Japanse awards, I suggest "Orders and Medals of Japan and Associated States" by James W. Peterson.

/Marcus

[Laurence Strong]

For Japanese "non" valor awards...Military Next of Kin, Imperial Time Expiered Soldiers League, Assorted Military Associations, Womens Associations, Japanese Red Cross and other's.

"In the Name of a Living God"

By Paul L. Murphy & Steven L. Ackley
ISBN 0-9764450-0-X

[Cherokee Blue]

Pamphlet styple book titled "Decorations & Awards of The Third Reich" dtd 1974 from GMI Publications. Gives a good overview of awards and decorations. Purchased used through Amazon.com.
/Rick

[ngs3]

BULLS-EYE: GERMAN ARMY MARKSMANSHIP LANYARDS and TANK DESTRUCTION BADGES

by Neil G Stewart and LTC (ret) Timothy J Curley

This book takes presents large color images as well as period photographs detailing the different tiers and grades of marksmanship lanyards. Specifications for, and details of, genuine badges explain what the collector should know before he buys. In a similar manner, TDBs are examined with examples of the various backgrounds encountered for genuine badges along with exciting vignettes of soldiers who participated in the close-in combat necessary to win these awards.


Tiger III Books (email: [email protected] )

large format, all color, 151 pages in deluxe slipcase with special bookmark showing 1:1 images of lanyard badges and TDBs. See books by members http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 9#p1312849

[HCJS-WWII-Sepp]

Well if you want to know about the recipiants of the awards Franz Kurowski's

Infantry Aces:

Details of combat careers of Knights Cross recipiants, 6 six soldiers 4 from the Wehrmacht, and two from the Waffen-SS,
I know one of them was Josef "Sepp" lainer and i think Alfred Schrineheirtd

Panzer Aces: Franz Bake, Otto Bolter, Rudolf Von Ribbentrop Michale Wittmann, all recived the Knights Cross i cant remember the others, as i havnt read it in a long while.

Luftwaffe Aces: I havnt read it yet but it was about Luftwaffe pilots who recived the Knights Cross.

[ngs3]

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[von thoma]

Three Books in Spanish Language of Gregorio Torres Gallego:

Photo:http://2gmblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/con ... s-del.html y -http://www.libreriaeuropa.es/ampliada.php?codart=CTR

[von thoma]

Auszeichnungen des Deutschen Reiches 1936 - 1945: Eine Dokumentation ziviler und militärischer Verdienst- und Ehrenzeichen.
By Kurt-G. Klietmann (Author).


Photo:http://www.libri.de/shop/action/product ... 36894.html

[von thoma]

Condecoraciones de la Wehrmacht 1939-1945 ( Wehrmacht Decorations ) by David Rodríguez Luján.
May-2012
Spanish Language.

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