Description

Iron Cross is the UK’s only magazine of German military history from the First World War to the end of the Second World War.  Covering all aspects of German military history including the Imperial German forces of the Great War, the Weimar period and the Nazi period.  Iron Cross prides itself on the highest quality production with stunning content in the unique and ground-breaking features, often revealing untold stories and publishing photographs that have never been seen before.

This issue features articles on the story of a Dornier 217 downed over England and the discovery of its wreckage with crew member and bomb load, a German officer’s report and photos from Dunkirk, Luftwaffe fighters over the Bay of Biscay, the German’s cross-Channel guns, an unusual WW1 German trench periscope, how the Kriegsmarine lost a capital ship in Norway during April 1940, the mystery of a tail from a shot down German aircraft from the Battle of Britain, Erwin Rommel’s Oakleaves & Diamonds, the ‘misunderstood’ Panzer III and how von Clausewitz’s treatise ‘On War’ was misinterpreted by both the French and German armies in WW1. There is also a detailed look at Luftwaffe flying kit.