Devil’s shield

Devils Shield: Explosive tank battles on the plains surrounding the Holy city of Aachen, and gritty close-quarters fighting through its dirty, bombed-out streets. Surrounded by the might of the Big Red One, has the embattled SS Wotan, led by the unwavering von Dodenburg, finally met its match?This is the second in the fictional series The Dogs of War, by Leo Kessler. In the grey September of 1944, Colonel von Dodenburgs SS battle group Wotan became the Fuhrers Fire Brigade, the crack unit of the German Wehrmacht, to be thrown into any battle as a last desperate measure to redress the balance. As the Allied armies closed in on Germanys Holy City of Aachen, even the most optimistic said that Hitlers war was lost. Only Colonel von Dodenburgs black uniformed troopers, with their dreaded silver deaths head badge, were convinced that they could still save the day.Leo Kessler is the pseudonym of the late writer Charles Whiting. More than three million of his books have been sold worldwide.