Austria-Hungary Forthcoming book opportunity

[Ian]

I hope I haven’t broken any Forum rules in posting this new book alert, but seeing as this book is rather unique and a specialist book I hope I will be forgiven.

I have recently received an e-mail from Jörg Steiner of Vienna in which he informed me that his long expected book on the recipients of the Golden Bravery Medal

(Goldene Tapferkeitsmedaille - GTM) during Great War 1914-1918 is finally set to be published in the autumn of 2010. The book will be self-published (Die Träger

der Goldenen Tapferkeitsmedaille im 1. Weltkrieg) and unfortunately only about 500 copies will be available for sale.

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Jörg’s details are as follows:

Jörg C. Steiner Postfach 66 A-1120 Wien or ostarrichi@gmail.com

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In addition Jörg asked me to ask you for some help. Until August 2010 when the draft of the book will go into printing he is still looking for some of the

biographies of the GTM recipients. He currently has about 80 of them, but they are mostly about Austro-German, Hungarian and a few Slovene GTM recipients.

He is therefore still searching for any biographies of GTM recipients, particularly those who were of Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Bosnian, Polish, Italian, Romanian,

Serbian, Jewish and Croatian origin. Also more Hungarian would do OK. He is not searching for long essays, but just a short biography with a few basic information

(date and place of birth, date and place of death, what did he do after the war etc. and maybe a photo of him if possible). So if you can contribute any biography that

would be simply outstanding.

Anyway since the book will be self-published and printed in only a limited number (ca. 500 copies) Jörg is already collecting orders and subscriptions for his book.

So anyone who is interested in ordering this fascinating book, which I highly recommend, please convey your order by contacting Jörg. He speaks German and English

fluently, so the language is no problem.

The contents will consist of a Prolog and Epilog. I will do longer parts of the book "Armee im Schatten" the bestseller book of Dr. Bodo Kaltenböck. He was winner of the GTM by

himself and Fähnrich, Leutnant and at last Oberleutnant at IR 17. I never read better lines regarding the craziness of the Isonzo-Battles and more impressing pain about those

coming back having lost their country and being blamed of murder and war.

- short history of Bravery Medal especially during 1914-1918

- GTM to foreigners and exchange of Bravery medals in common

- Selected Biographies of GTM and GTM for officers (77 I have now perhaps I will get 100)

- winners of more than one GTM

- dubious cases of claiming for more than one GTM

- winners of a GTM incl. those receiving permission after the war

- dubious cases of claiming for a GTM

- secret and not secret winners after 1918

- GTM for officers

- winners during and after the war

- dubious cases of claiming for a GTM

- GTM winners during III.Reich

- list of all receiving GTM-Zulage 1939

- list of all claiming to have a GTM in Croatian Army 1943

- Plan of creating a Heldenkapitel 1945/46 of GTM winners and MMThO winners against Nazi to recreate Austria under foreign troops (after WW2) new.

- rarely known documents regarding the GTM in full text