Blood and Soil: The Memoir of a Third Reich Brandenburger

Hailing from the South Tyrolean village of Sterzing, Sepp de Giampietro joined the Wehrmacht in 1938 before moving into the Brandenburg Division. He served in the Balkans, the Eastern Front, then the Kuban before returning to his home village at the end of the war.

P. J. Ochlan, an Audie Award-winning and multiple AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator, has recorded hundreds of audiobooks. His acting career spans more than thirty years and has also included Broadway, the New York Shakespeare Festival, critically acclaimed feature films, and regular roles in television series.

Lawrence Paterson has written several books on the U-boat war, including U-Boat War Patrol, Hitler's Grey Wolves, a new biography of Otto Kretschmer, and Hitler's Brandenburgers. He lives in Taranto, Italy, and is a drummer in a heavy metal band.

Eva Burke translated and helped research The True Story of the Christmas Truce and I Somehow Survived. She lives in London with her husband, four children and three grandchildren.