Leo Kessler

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  • Bibliography:
    55 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1985
  • Latest Book:
    February 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Dogs of War

2 - Devil's Shield (Oct-2004)
3 - SS Panzer Battalion ()
4 - Claws of Steel (Oct-2004)
6 - Death's Head (Nov-2006)
Blood and Ice (Nov-2006)
Blood Mountain (Nov-2006)
Sand Panthers (Nov-2006)

Submarine

Operation Death Watch (Sep-1985)
Fire in the West (Oct-1986)

Wotan

Operation Glenn Miller ()
Death Ride (Apr-1985)
The Outcasts (Jul-1986)
Operation Fury (Jun-1997)
Hitler Youth Attacks! (Aug-2004)
The Reich Flies the Flag (Dec-2005)
Rommel's Last Battle (Jul-2006)
Operation Leningrad (May-2007)
From Tyranny to Freedom (Aug-2008)

Book List in Order: 55 titles

  • Death Ride

    Wotan

  • Operation Death Watch

    Submarine

    Britain's most powerful battleship, The Prince of Wales, had a hollow ring, for to reach their destination they had to cross the perilous U-boat infested waters of the Atlantic. This was Churchill's most daring mission. In a desperate attempt to forc...

  • The Outcasts

    Wotan

  • Fire in the West

    Submarine

  • The Die-hards

  • The Hawks of Death

  • The Hess Assault

  • Flight to the Reich

  • Death Match



  • The March on Warsaw

  • Assault Baghdad

    At the height of World War II, with the Middle East in turmoil, the British race against time to protect their base at Basra, safeguard their vital oil resources, and stop a German-Iraqi plot to end British power in the region...

  • Flight from Moscow

    SS Assault Regiment Wotan is put in the vanguard of one million troops in Hitler's planned attack on the doors of the Kremlin, only to be forced into a panicked retreat from the Moscow suburbs in the harshest conditions....

  • Fire over Serbia

    The latest in the action-packed S. S. Wotan series offers a fact-based World War II adventure featuring the crack German regiment as it moves into Yugoslavia as part of an all-out Nazi effort to destroy the powerful resistance forces of Tito....

  • Ss Attacks

    As D-Day approaches, Hitler moves north, but Commander von Dodenburg believes that the Allies have targeted Normandy and, risking death for insubordination, plans a preemptive strike designed to retain Nazi control over Europe....

  • The Hitler Werewolf Murders

    March 1945, and Hitler's Germany is beaten. Suddenly the Allied camp is shocked by a series of mysterious murders. It is discovered that they are being carried out by a Nazi underground movement called Werewolf, and it is up to the SAS to stop them....

  • Breakout from Stalingrad

  • March of Death

  • Kill Rommel

    In this clever mix of fact and fiction, John Kerrigan starts a major new series detailing the rise of the SAS over half a century to become the world's most elite formation. North Africa, 1941: General Rommel, the commander of the German AFRIKAKORPS,...

  • Wotan Missions



  • Surprise Attack

  • The Revenge

  • Operation Fury

    Wotan

    He is planning a huge armoured offensive, which will divide the British and American armies in the Low Countries. To lead this great war-winning attack he has selected Sepp Deitrich's 7th SS Panzer Army, which will have as its point Colonel yon Doden...

  • Death's Eagles

  • The Churchill Papers

    Half a century after his death, secrets it was thought Mussolini had taken to his grave emerge threatening to tarnish and blight the reputation of the popular English leader. There are those who will go to any length to find the Churchill papers....

  • Patton's Wall

    Western Front, December 1941. For over three months the Allies have been slogging away trying to puncture Hitler's dreaded Westwall into the Reich. But to no avail. Now, with casualties running into hundreds of thousands, Supreme Commander US General...

  • Battle for Hitler's Eagles Nest

    Mallory's Marauders, previously encountered in SS Wotan: The Stalag Assault, return in this adventure. Various factions, with various motives, are trying to win a shipment of gold from Hitler's mountain refuge, the Eagle's Nest, in the Bavarian A...

  • The Screaming Eagles

    On Christmas Eve 1944, Iron Mike McDonald's men, the 101st Airborne Division, are ordered out on a desperate mission to save what's left of their crippled division. They must link up with Patton's Fourth Armoured, still fighting its way through the e...

  • Great Escape

    A dazzling blend of fact and fiction from a master story-teller Autumn 1944: In his frontline castle, Hitler is putting the final touches to his last great surprise attack in the West: the Battle of the Bulge. To assist the surprise assault, Skorenzy...

  • Sirens of Dunkirk

    A new adventure for Major Dalby and his young sidekick Sergeant Mackenzie May 1940: the 'phoney' war is about to come to an end. The head of the German Secret Service is attempting to flood the UK with spies and Dalby and Mackenzie are determined to ...



  • Murder at Colditz

    In November 1939, two British intelligence officers, Mackenzie and Dalby, are involved in a dangerous mission. The plan is to collaborate with top Nazi generals in a plot to assassinate Hitler. But they've been double-crossed. The operation is aborte...

  • Hitler Youth Attacks!

    Wotan

    D-Day spells disaster
    Summer, 1944. SS Assault Regiment Wotan are brought in to stiffen the ranks of the newest SS division the Baby Division, made up from the Hitler Youth. Von Dodenburg, commander of the Wotan, doesn't like his new assignment o...

  • Claws of Steel

    Dogs of War - 4

    This is the fourth in the fictional series The Dogs of War, by Leo Kessler. They had taken the most impregnable fortress in Europe, faced Stalin's cadets in the screaming inferno of the Russian front, and returned with only a handful of survivors. Th...

  • Devil's Shield

    Dogs of War - 2

    This is the second in the fictional series The Dogs of War, by Leo Kessler. In the grey September of 1944, colonel von Dodenburg's SS battle group Wotan became the Fuhrer's Fire Brigade, the crack unit of the German Wehrmacht, to be thrown into any b...

  • Forced March

    This is the first in the fictional series The Dogs of War, by Leo Kessler. It is 1942, and the Vulture's eyes gleamed as he watched the exhausted men crawling up the slope through the slippery mud, under the knee-high barbed wire. The SS Assault Regi...

  • The Reich Flies the Flag

    Wotan

    A new mission for the hard-bitten men of SS Assault Regiment Wotan Russia, 1942: Battling against the harsh conditions, the German offensive has stalled outside Moscow. A morale-boosting coup is devised by Hitler to revigorate the men. A plan is hatc...

  • Rommel's Last Battle

    Wotan

    A gripping thriller dramatising the final campaign of the ?Desert Fox?. North Africa, 1943. Field Marshal Rommel of the German Afrikakorps is at the end of his tether. He's sick, defeated by General Montgomery and out of favour with Hitler. He decide...

  • Monty's Fight for Victory

    An exciting Second World War adventure - April 1945. Field Marshal Montgomery, Commander of the British Army in North Germany, is about to fight his last battle of World War Two. But unknown to the world, Monty is going to fight another battle agains...

  • Blood and Ice

    Dogs of War

    Assault Regiment Wotan, the elite band of men whom Kuno von Dodenburg had led so often to victory, had been mercilessly cut down in the forests of the Ardennes. Only Sergeant-Major Schulze remained to lead the battered, war weary survivors of Hitler'...

  • Blood Mountain

    Dogs of War

    The Fuhrer's orders were clear -- conquer Mount Elbrus, highest peak in the Caucasus mountains. But there were problems: Elbrus was behind the Russian lines; the route to the mountain was blocked by hostile Cossack tribesmen; and the fanatical Red Ra...



  • Death's Head

    Dogs of War - 6

    In this gripping adventure SS Assault Battalion Wotan, the toughest troops in Europe, are sent on an apparently impossible mission against the elite of the Soviet Army in a vital bid to prepare the way for Operation Barbarossa. Once again we meet the...

  • Sand Panthers

    Dogs of War

    SS Assault Regiment Wotan had been sent to join the Desert Rats, their objective to liberate the Egyptian army and to wrest the control of Alexandria from the British forces. But the men of Wotan found that Rommel didn't want them, and as they set of...

  • Operation Leningrad

    Wotan

    SS Assault Regiment Wotan faces certain failureLeningrad is being besieged by German troops in a siege that will eventually last 900 days. The Russians have reduced their forces at Lake Ladoga, not expecting a German attack in the snow. Aware of this...

  • From Tyranny to Freedom

    Wotan

    An SS Wotan Adventure. SS Wotan were the elite of the elite, who fought and whored and died on the battlefields of Europe, eternally loyal to their Fhrer, but above all to one another. Their brutal efficiency became the stuff of legends and spawned r...

  • Cauldron of Blood

  • Frozen Mountain

    Frozen Mountain, previously entitled Blood and Ice.On the precipitous, icy slopes of Grey Eagle Mountain a few desperate men fight like wild animals for survival. They are the last of Hitler's deadly elite: the Waffen SS.Assault Regiment Wotan has be...

  • Stormtroop Edelweiss

    Stormtroop Edelweiss: Previously titled "Blood Mountain".Hitler's orders were clear: prove to the entire world the might of the unstoppable Motherland by conquering the peak of Mount Elbrus piercing the sky between German and Russian lines. It would ...

  • Death From Arctic Skies

    December 1944. Captured at the hands of the Americans, the proud Colonel Kuno von Dodenburg is now a Prisoner of War. He's scheduled to be hauled up in front of a war crimes court for the SS Massacre at Malmedy, during the Battle of the Bulge, and th...

  • Otto's Phoney War

    Decorated by Hitler, stripped by Himmler, seduced by a nymphomaniac Countess, and relentlessly pursued by SS headhunters, Otto bluffs his way from bedroom to battlefield and back."Flashman for the Second World War" - Benjamin LindleyIt's the eve of W...

  • Otto's Blitzkrieg

    Snatched off a beach by British Commandos, getting blind drunk in a reet Yorkshire pub, incarcerated with a troop of panty-wearing lady boys, and appearing on the front of every German newspaper. These are the continuing adventures of one good-for...



  • The Blackout Murders

    • / General Fiction
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    Wartime London, 1942. Just like sixty-odd years before, a fiend is loose in the dark fogbound streets of London. But, unlike Jack the Ripper, this monster looks for women in uniform to mutilate and kill. Major Mackenzie must come up with some answers...

  • Flight from Berlin

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  • Kill Patton

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Featuring Major McKenzie. General Patton is languishing on Sicily after having his third army taken away from him on Washington's orders for having slapped a Gl. Now, as he broods, half-mad with grief and anger, he starts to receive death threats. He...

  • Operation Glenn Miller

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    Wotan

    The latest in the SS Wotan series, based on the mysterious disappearance of Glenn Miller on 15 December 1944 Winter 1944: Part of the plan of the Battle of the Bulge is the assassination of the Allied Supreme Commander, General Eisenhower in Paris. S...

  • Operation Iraq

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    The master storyteller looks at a topical phase of World War II
    They called themselves the Pact of Steel. They were Germany, Japan and Italy, and in 1941 they dreamed up an audacious plan to take over the world. They would drive from east to west ...

  • SS Panzer Battalion

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    Dogs of War - 3

    The third in this fictional series, The Dogs of War, by Leo Kessler. It was January 1940, and the coldest winter within living memory. The Western front was still paralysed by the phoney war, but, at the Adolf Hitler Kaserne, a new battalion of SS tr...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Leo Kessler has published 55 books.

Leo Kessler does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Otto's Blitzkrieg, was published in February 2017.

The first book by Leo Kessler, Death Ride, was published in April 1985.

Yes. Leo Kessler has 3 series.
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