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23/10/2025

Seeking an ID on this Knight's Cross winner. Looks like an Infanterie Major recovering from a wound (his right arm is in a sling). The photo was taken in spring 1942 during a tour to Italy (this location has no bearing on his identity). Thanks!

19/09/2025

Good news! Postal services from Australia to the US will resume on Monday 22 September 2025.
Bad news - We are now forced to collect import tariffs at the time of purchase from US customers. At present it is 10%, which will be included in the final cost of your order. Please note that we do not keep ANY of these tariffs as it all gets passed on to the US government. We have partnered with a company called Zonos, an authorised US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) third-party provider. Here's how it works:
1. We collect tariffs at time of purchase.
2. When parcels are lodged with Australia Post, the data is passed on to Zonos.
3. Zonos pays the duties to CBP on our behalf.
4. Zonos charges us the corresponding amount.

This is more administrative busywork we don’t really need, but there's nothing we can do about it. Thanks for your understanding.

26/08/2025

Some bad news for US customers: due to import tariffs announced by the US government, Australia Post has suspended the shipping of all parcels to the States. Many countries around the globe have taken the same action.
We don't know when this situation will end. When it does, however, we will likely be forced to collect tariff costs from US customers at the point-of-sale.
We have several titles in stock at our US warehouse – Panzerkrieg Volume 2, Guderian's Foxes, etc. – so they can still be ordered and sent to US addresses, but other titles are a no-go for now.
We will keep you informed.

26/08/2025

An unknown Internet sleuth mistakenly identified a PPSh-wielding Hauptmann in the Barrikady Gun Factory as Traub. This "fake Traub" nonsense keeps appearing online, despite our best efforts to refute it. So, we decided to create this graphic highlighting the differences between the two men.

Mistaken identity An unknown Internet sleuth mistakenly identified a PPSh-wielding Hauptmann in the Barrikady Gun Factory as Traub. This “fake Traub” nonsense keeps appearing online, de…

21/08/2025

Hauptmann Wilhelm Traub
His glasses and paunch gave him a benign, headmasterly appearance that contrasted sharply with his medals and ribbon bar. Combat in the trenches on the Western Front and Russia as a young officer in the Great War had earned him both grades of the Iron Cross as well as several other decorations.

Hauptmann Wilhelm Traub His glasses and paunch gave him a benign, headmasterly appearance that contrasted sharply with his medals and ribbon bar. Combat in the trenches on the Western Front and Rus…

19/08/2025

Meet Oberleutnant Richard Grimm, the main protagonist in “Grimm Fate”. This cherub-faced disciplinarian led a company of combat engineers into battle on the Eastern Front. He was the only company commander from his entire division to endure six straight months of operations on the Eastern Front without being injured or killed.
(More pics and info in our blog post)

Meet Oberleutnant Richard Grimm, the main protagonist in “Grimm Fate”. This cherub-faced disciplinarian led a company of combat engineers into battle on the Eastern Front. He was the only company c…

12/08/2025

Different levels of interest exist in military history: general readers want easy reading that breezily describes a certain topic, while aficionados seek detailed tomes filled with facts, figures and analysis. We here at Leaping Horseman Books aim our books at the latter market. However, our next title will fit right in the middle of these two extremes.
"Grimm Fate" reveals the German experience on the Eastern Front through the eyes of one battalion. If you've read "Into Oblivion", you will already know Richard Grimm and the men of the 305th Pioneer Battalion. The material found for that book and the tragic, representative story of this formation needs to be shared with a wider audience. Dr. Peter Englund, the former Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy – the body that determines the Nobel Prize for Literature – had this to say about "Into Oblivion":
"Being a professional historian myself, and having written a fair amount on war, I know how difficult it can be to fuse the individual perspective with the so called Big Picture. Most people opt for that big picture, understandably so, using the individuals as specks of light and colour that just flicker by in the grand narrative flow, and when it's well done the result is often excellent. But I think you have "squared the circle" in "Into Oblivion", where neither of these perspectives get lost, and at the same time you give the reader a balanced, precise, well-researched view of combat on the Eastern Front, hard to put down, and equally hard to forget. In short: a truly excellent job."
https://www.svenskaakademien.se/en/the-academy/chair-no-10-peter-englund
With the help of Dr. Englund, "Into Oblivion" was translated and published in Sweden.
We now want to get this book out to a much wider audience, so we streamlined it for a general audience. If you've not previously read anything about Stalingrad or the German experience in Russia, then we humbly suggest that this book is a great starting point. If you already own "Into Oblivion", we're certain you'd love this book as it's been rewritten in a fresher, faster-paced style. You all no doubt know someone – a friend, work colleague, father-in-law, weird uncle – who has a passing interesting in military topics. This is the book to gift to them.
More details will be announced soon.

Different levels of interest exist in military history: general readers want easy reading that breezily describes a certain topic, while aficionados seek detailed tomes filled with facts, figures a…