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Doug Nash is a West Point Class of 1980 graduate and a retired U.S. Army Colonel with 32 years of active duty service in places like Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany, Cuba, and Uzbekistan. His many works include Hell's Gate: The Battle of the Cherkassy Pocket January to February 1944 and Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp: with the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division from the Huertgen Forest to the Heart of the Reich (which was nominated for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction).
''The author...brings a wealth of personal experience and knowledge to his narrative which reflects within this highly researched and readable history. This is a great book with the 'nitty gritty' detail that wargamers tend to like and from which they can construct scenarios. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book which gives a fascinating account of the battles which the IV. SS-Panzer Corps fought between the end of July and November 1944. I strongly recommend it to any interested reader who wants to get into the detail of how the Germans fought.''--Richard Hargreaves, author of The Germans in Normandy Miniature Wargames From the Realm of a Dying Sun is compiled with the same incredible thoroughness and attention to detail as the author's previous works on the Cherkassy Pocket and the fate of a late-war German division on the Western Front... This is a seminal addition to an already impressive canon of work by Col Nash, accompanied by comprehensive maps and an excellent collection of images (many from private archives). It plugs a gap in Eastern Front literature and deserves to be on the shelf of any serious military historian interested in the subject. --Richard Hargreaves, author of The Germans in Normandy A Wargamers Needful Things From the Realm of a Dying Sun, by Colonel Douglas Nash, is quite simply the most comprehensive, detailed book on the tactical and operational levels of the WaffenSS that I have ever read. First the bad news: if you are a historian contemplating researching and writing about the IV. SS-Panzerkorps (composed of volunteers from 11 different European nations) from Warsaw to Vienna in 1944-45, stop what you are doing as you are wasting your time. Doug Nash has written the final word on the subject. Now the great news: if you ever wanted to get inside a Waffen-SS unit on the Eastern Front and know everything about it--personnel, organization and combat operations--this is exactly the book for you. --Colonel French MacLean, author of Quiet Flows the Rhine: German General Officer Casualties in World War II A Wargamers Needful Things Scholars and general readers alike will treasure this hard-hitting and detailed book... Most authors only tell us what happened during mankind's greatest conflict. Nash's expertise allows him to go much further. Using the story of the IV. SS-Panzerkorps he tells us how Germany, even late in WWII, organized, trained, supplied and transported a corps HQ to the combat zone and how the corps leadership employed its subordinate units in battle... This is a provocative and fresh interpretation of how Germany fought the war and it is sure to become an enduring contribution to the combat history of WWII. --Lieutenant Colonel Edward G. Miller, author of A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945 A Wargamers Needful Things This is a major addition to the corpus of works on the major (if also lesser known) fighting units of the Waffen-SS. Nash displays an excellent and detailed knowledge of how units were organized and operated, aided by his own extensive military experience. Students of the Eastern Front in the latter stages of the war will find this an indispensable resource. --Richard L. DiNardo, author of Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse A Wargamers Needful Things The detailed coverage of the IV-SS Panzerkorp's actions during this phase of the war also adds much in the way of context to the massive tank battles that occured south, east, and northeast of Warsaw's suburb of Praga east of the Vistula River...I very much recommend this book to my readers. -- Globe at War This book is definitely written for grognards, with a level of detail and trivia that would make David Glantz, the dean of Eastern Front operational history, proud. -- New York Journal of Books This is an amazing book from cover to cover...From the decisions taken at the highest levels to the actual stories of the men in the tanks and on the ground, it is an unparalleled work of military history. -- A Wargamers Needful Things
