Stephen Muehlbauer

Served as an officer in the U.S. Army and later in the Rhodesian Light Infantry and Grey's Scouts achieving the rank of WO 2. Retired from his civilian job and the U.S. Army Reserves and now spending my time re-reading some of the 5000+ books I've amassed and writing reviews for Argunners Magazine.

Waffen-SS in Combat - Bob Carruthers

REVIEW: Images of War – The Waffen-SS In Combat by Bob Carruthers

This is the photographic history of the Waffen-SS in combat on all fronts. The short six year history of the Waffen SS spanned triumph and disaster, and their story can be traced through these powerful images, which clearly document the reality of combat from 1940 to 1945. These rare images span the combat history of …

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REVIEW: SS Panzergrenadier by Hans Schmidt

BOOK: SS Panzergrenadier: A true story of World War II by Hans Schmidt One hardly knows where to begin in summarizing this magnificent book by Hans Schmidt who was born in Germany in 1927 and died – as American citizen for 55 years – in 2010. This book blends first person historical narrative, historical facts, sociology, the “problems” of …

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Leadership in the Shadows - Special Operations Soldier

REVIEW: Leadership In The Shadows by SGM Kyle Lamb

Book Review of Leadership in the Shadows by SGM Kyle Lamb What do Sun Tzu (“The Art of War), Julius Caesar (“The Gallic Wars”), Antoine­ Henri Jomini (“The Art of War”), Carl Von Clausewitz (“On War”) and Erwin Rommel (“Infanterie greift an”) have in common? They all wrote books on the science of war albeit from “the …

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Sepp Allerberger Book Collage

REVIEW: Sniper on the Eastern Front – Sepp Allerberger by Albrecht Wacker

Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight’s Cross by Albrecht Wacker Josef “Sepp” Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the award of the Knight’s Cross (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a …

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Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants Book

REVIEW: Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants 1933­-1945

REVIEW: This book accurately reflects it’s title. Short on words and filled with pictures it shows the SS Commandants and, sometimes, men who manned the concentration camps from 1933-­1945. It gives a brief overview of the development of the GERMAN concentration camp system and how it evolved from a single prison for dissidents and political enemies of the …

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