Battle Group SS

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Battle Group SS is an account of an epic last stand at the end of WWII. The inhabitants of a small-town attempt to fight the Russian hordes as they rampage toward them.

Leo Speer’s family are gone, killed in a bombing raid that obliterates everything he loves. Seeking revenge, he joins the German Army where he quickly achieves the rank of Oberleutant. His military career is short-lived. He is a doctor, not a butcher, and after continually refusing to follow orders he’s assigned to a punishment battalion, a fate worse than death.

As the Eastern Front collapses Leo is inducted into the SS and posted to take command of Elsberg, a small town on the eastern border. Facing them is an entire Soviet Shock Army, and all that stands between legions of Russian troops is a few score Wehrmacht troopers, reinforced with Hitler Youth ‘volunteers,’ little more than schoolboys, and Volkstrum. Old men, many of them grandfathers.

The situation is hopeless, yet the local hospital needs time to treat and then evacuate the sick and wounded. He has to buy them that time. Speer has three hundred men and boys under his command, facing upward of fifty thousand Russians. He knows it will cost them the lives of every soldier, Hitler Youth, and elderly Volksturm. They prepare to fight what every man knows will be an epic battle to the death, one that will go down in history as a superb example of bravery and sacrifice.

A full-length novel by the bestselling author of the popular SEAL Team Bravo stories, Heroes of Afghanistan, Raider, Echo Six, and Devil's Guard titles.

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About the author

Eric Meyer

Eric is UK author and a graduate of University College, Cardiff, where he studied politics. He served part-time in the Commandos, the Royal Marines Reserve, reaching the rank of Colour Sergeant. During his service he was seconded to take part in and lead a number of sensitive and classified missions, as well as undertake instructor assignments in a number of Special Forces schools. During this time he pursued a full-time career as an independent coach and consultant, working with various blue chip and smaller organisations. Eric Meyer has developed a specialty as a motivational coach, and drew heavily on his military experience to give his clients the tools for leadership, initiative and audacity that are the mark of the small unit commander.

Working with a number of authors and experts, he has been co-writer on a number of self-improvement and motivational titles. As an author, his books are sold all over the world in paperback, hardback and ebook format. He writes mainly in the genres of military thriller, and detective thriller. Indeed, his first novel, Devil's Guard, The Real Story, is a fact based novel based on the French IndoChina war in what is now known as Vietnam. With a number of novels set during World War II on the Eastern Front, as well as novels of the Vietnam War, his military experience is reflected in a range of war fiction titles. The detective thrillers are based on an NYPD detective, Gabriel de Sade, a Special Forces veteran.

He has also presented a number of documentary films, mostly exploring historical subjects ranging from early Christian history to the mystical brilliance of Leonardo da Vinci.

Eric is married with three children, and still pursues his military and historical research in his available spare time. He is also a keen runner, and has achieved success in a number of road and off-road races, including fell-running, the challenging sport of competitive running across hill ranges in the countryside. Throughout his career he has combined his extensive and growing knowledge of military affairs with his zest for the latest motivational tools to produce novels that will both thrill and entertain the reader. Current projects include research into the causes and progress of the war in Afghanistan. Currently, Eric Meyer is a full-time novelist.