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"Here are Tales of the Waffen SS and award winning comic book writer/artist Wayne Vansant provides the stories of the German Panzer troops during World War II. This graphic novel edition collects for the first time Vansant's previous tales that were released as individual comics or as short stories. Included here is the acclaimed Battle Group Peiper and how the infamous German commander during the Battle of the Bulge committed one of the greatest atrocities against American soldiers. Also three short tales of young German tank soldiers that experience the horrors of war, and this is capped off by the the story of the ""Witches' Cauldron"", the incredible saga of the Cherkassy Pocket battle between retreating German forces and the Soviet army on the Eastern Front. A perfect companion book to Wayne Vansant's Days of Darkness, Days of Wrath, and Battron WWII graphic novels."

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"Wayne Vansant was born and raised near Atlanta, GA, and served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. He graduated from the Atlanta College of Art and began his writing and illustration career in 1986 with Marvel Comics' ""Savage Tales"" and ""The 'Nam."" Since then, he has written and/or illustrated many books and comics on historical/military subjects such as Battle Group Peiper, Days of Darkness, Antietam: The Fiery Trial (commissioned by the National Park Service), Blockade: The Civil War at Sea, The War in Korea, The Hammer and the Anvil (profiling Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass), Normandy (profiling D-Day and the entire Normandy Campaign), Gettysburg (profiling the Battle of Gettysburg), and others. He is currently working on graphic histories of the Battle of the Bulge, Manfred von Richthofen, aka the Red Baron, and finishing up his Russian Front trilogy entitled Katusha: Girl Soldier of the Patriotic War. His work has been applauded by the Historical Novel Society and World War II Magazine."

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