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Charles Whiting

Charles Whiting, nato nell'area di Bootham a York, in Inghilterra, fu un prolifico scrittore e storico militare, noto per i suoi thriller e per i suoi numerosi pseudonimi, tra cui Ian Harding, Duncan Harding, K.N. Kostov, John Kerrigan, Klaus Konrad e Leo Kessler. L'interesse per la scrittura di Whiting iniziò durante gli anni dell'università e il suo primo romanzo venne pubblicato nel 1954. Già nel 1958 aveva all'attivo tre thriller ambientati durante la guerra.

La vita di Whiting fu segnata da una serie di esperienze diversificate che avrebbero influenzato la sua produzione letteraria. Dopo aver lasciato la Nunthorpe Grammar School all'età di 16 anni, mentì sulla sua età per arruolarsi nell'esercito britannico. Servì nel 52° Reggimento Ricognizione e prestò servizio in Francia, Paesi Bassi, Belgio e Germania durante le ultime fasi della seconda guerra mondiale. Come soldato, Whiting osservò i conflitti tra alti ufficiali britannici e americani, che avrebbe successivamente descritto ampiamente nei suoi scritti. Dopo la guerra, rimase in Germania, dove completò gli esami di livello A attraverso un corso per corrispondenza e insegnò inglese. Successivamente studiò Storia e Lingua Tedesca all'Università di Leeds, dove ebbe l'opportunità di studiare in diverse università europee.

La carriera di Whiting come scrittore si distinse per la sua straordinaria produttività, con oltre 350 titoli al suo attivo, tra cui 70 saggi su vari argomenti, dalla intelligence service nazista alle unità militari britanniche durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Whiting svolse una varietà di lavori, tra cui traduttore in una fabbrica chimica tedesca, pubblicista, corrispondente per The Times e scrittore di articoli per diverse riviste, tra cui International Review of Linguistics, Soldier e Playboy. Nonostante il suo successo, Whiting rimase un uomo schivo e riservato, che continuò a scrivere e pubblicare libri ben oltre gli 80 anni. Morì il 24 luglio 2007, lasciando la moglie e il figlio.
Assault Troop Books (as Ian Harding)
# Titolo Anno
1 Blood Beach 1983
2 Death In The Forest 1983
3 Clash on the Rhine 1984
4 End Run 1984
Otto Stahl Books (as Leo Kessler)
# Titolo Anno
1 Ottos Phoney War 1981
2 Otto's Blitzkrieg! 1982
3 Otto and the Reds 1982
4 Otto And The Yanks 1983
5 Otto and the S.S. 1983
6 Otto and the Himmler loveletters 1984
Rebel Books (as Leo Kessler)
# Titolo Anno
1 Cannon Fodder 1987
2 The Die-hards 1987
3 Breakout 1988
4 Death Match 1988
Rommel Books (as Leo Kessler)
# Titolo Anno
1 Ghost Division 1979
2 Massacre 1979
Russian Books (as)
# Titolo Anno
1 First Blood 1980
2 March On Moscow 1981
3 Front Swine 1982
Sea Wolves Books (as Leo Kessler)
# Titolo Anno
1 Sink the "Scharnhorst"! 1981
2 Death to the Deutschland 1982
Special Boat Squadron Books (as Duncan Harding)
# Titolo Anno
1 Operation Stormwind 1996
2 The Finland Mission 1999
3 The Normandie Mission 2018
Spellmount Siegfried Line Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Decision at St.Vith 1969
2 The Battle of Hurtgen Forest 1988
Spymaster Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Wolf Hunt 1976
2 Double Cross 1977
SS Wotan Books (as Leo Kessler)
# Titolo Anno
1 SS Panzer Battalion 1974
2 Death's Head 1974
3 Claws of Steel 1974
4 Guns at Cassino 1975
5 Devil's Shield 1975
6 Hammer Of The Gods 1975
7 Forced March 1976
8 Blood and Ice / Frozen Mountain 1977
9 The Sand Panthers 1977
10 Counter Attack 1978
11 Hellfire. 1978
12 Panzer Hunt 1979
13 Slaughter Ground 1980
14 Flashpoint 1980
15 Cauldron Of Blood 1981
16 Schirmer's Headhunters 1981
17 Whores of War 1982
18 Schirmer's Death Legion 1983
19 Death ride 1985
20 Death Ride 1985
21 Slaughter at Salerno 1985
22 March or Die 1985
23 The Outcasts 1986
24 The Hess Assault 1987
25 The March on Warsaw 1988
26 Assault on Baghdad 1992
27 Flight from Berlin 1992
28 Flight from Moscow 1992
29 Fire Over Serbia 1993
30 SS Attacks 1994
31 Breakout from Stalingrad 1996
32 March of Death 1996
33 The Wotan Mission 1996
34 Operation Fury 1997
35 Death from Arctic Skies 1997
36 Death's Eagles 1998
37 The Churchill Papers 1998
38 Patton's Wall 1999
39 Stalag Assault 2000
40 Operation Glenn Miller 2001
41 Operation Iraq 2005
42 Operation Leningrad 2005
43 The Reich Flies the Flag 2005
44 Rommel's Last Battle 2006
45 From Tyranny to Freedom 2008
46 Some Desperate Glory 2014
Rommel Series Books (as Leo Kessler)
# Titolo Anno
1 Ghost Division 1979
2 Massacre 1979
Russian Series Books (as)
# Titolo Anno
1 First Blood 1980
2 March On Moscow 1981
3 Front Swine 1982
SS Wotan Series in Chronological Order
# Titolo Anno
1 SS Panzer Battalion 1974
2 Death's Head 1974
3 Claws of Steel 1974
4 Guns at Cassino 1975
5 Devil's Shield 1975
6 Hammer Of The Gods 1975
7 Forced March 1976
8 Blood and Ice / Frozen Mountain 1977
9 The Sand Panthers 1977
10 Counter Attack 1978
11 Panzer Hunt 1979
12 Slaughter Ground 1980
13 Hellfire. 1978
14 Flashpoint 1980
15 Cauldron Of Blood 1981
16 Schirmer's Headhunters 1981
17 Whores of War 1982
18 Schirmer's Death Legion 1983
19 Death Ride 1985
20 Death ride 1985
21 Slaughter at Salerno 1985
22 March or Die 1985
23 The Outcasts 1986
24 The Hess Assault 1987
25 The March on Warsaw 1988
26 Assault on Baghdad 1992
27 Flight from Moscow 1992
28 Fire Over Serbia 1993
29 Flight from Berlin 1992
30 Breakout from Stalingrad 1996
31 The Wotan Mission 1996
32 March of Death 1996
33 Operation Fury 1997
34 Death from Arctic Skies 1997
35 Death's Eagles 1998
36 The Churchill Papers 1998
37 Patton's Wall 1999
38 Stalag Assault 2000
39 Operation Glenn Miller 2001
40 Operation Iraq 2005
41 Operation Leningrad 2005
42 The Reich Flies the Flag 2005
43 Rommel's Last Battle 2006
44 From Tyranny to Freedom 2008
45 Some Desperate Glory 2014
46 SS Attacks 1994
Stormtroop Edelweiss Books (as Leo Kessler)
# Titolo Anno
1 Storm Troop 1977
2 Blood Mountain 1978
3 Valley of the Assassins 1979
4 Red Assault 1979
5 Himmler's Gold 1980
6 Fire Over Kabul 1982
7 Wave of Terror 1983
8 Eagles In The Snow 1983
9 Fire over Africa 1984
Stuka Squadron Books (as Leo Kessler)
# Titolo Anno
1 The Black Knights 1983
2 Hawks of Death 1983
3 Tank-busters! 1984
4 Blood Mission 1984
Submarine Books (as Leo Kessler)
# Titolo Anno
1 The Wolf Pack 1985
2 Operation Deathwatch 1986
3 Fire in the West 1986
4 Convoy to Catastrophe 1986
5 Flight to the Reich 1987
T-Force Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Big Breakout 1976
2 Massacre at Metz 1976
3 Highway Through Hell 1976
4 The Last Mission 2007
The Black Cossacks Books (as Leo Kessler)
# Titolo Anno
1 The Black Cossacks 1975
2 Sabres of the Reich 1976
3 Mountain of Skulls 1977
4 The Traitors 1977
5 Wolf 1978
The Common Smith VC Adventures Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Baltic Run 1993
2 In Turkish Waters 1994
3 Passage to Petrograd 1995
4 Death on the Rhine 1995
5 The Japanese Princess 1996
6 Death Trap 1996
7 Hell's Angels 1997
The Destroyer Books (as Duncan Harding)
# Titolo Anno
1 Flotilla Attack 2004
2 Operation Chariot 2004
The Destroyers Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Operation Fox Hunt 1974
2 Operation Stalag 1974
3 Operation Afrika 1975
4 Operation Werewolf 1975
5 Operation Caucasian Fox 1975
6 Operation Kill Ike 1975
7 Operation Northwind 1986
8 Operation Judgment 1998
9 Operation Judgment ( As: Duncan Harding) 1998
10 Operation Il Duce 2003
11 Operation Torch ( As: Duncan Harding) 2005
12 Operation Torch 2005
The Punishment Battalion Thriller Books (as K.N. Kostov)
# Titolo Anno
1 Baptism of Blood 2024
2 Cossack Attack 2024
3 The Steppe Wolves 2024
4 The Gulag Rats 2024
5 Blood on the Baltic 2024
X-craft Books (as Duncan Harding)
# Titolo Anno
1 Slaughter in Singapore 2003
2 Hell on the Rhine 2003
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 The Frat Wagon 1954
2 Kill Patton 1974
3 Tug of War ( As: Duncan Harding) 1976
4 Tug of War 1976
5 Torpedo Boat ( As: Duncan Harding) 1976
6 Torpedo Boat 1976
7 Iron Fist ( As: Leo Kessler) 1977
8 Iron Fist 1977
9 Orders To Kill 1978
10 Great York Air Raid 1979
11 Great York Air Raid ( As: Leo Kessler) 1979
12 Breakthrough ( As: Leo Kessler) 1979
13 Breakthrough 1979
14 The Phoenix Assault (By: John Kerrigan) 1980
15 The Phoenix Assault 1980
16 S. S. Peiper: Life and Death of Jochen Peiper 1986
17 S. S. Peiper: Life and Death of Jochen Peiper ( As: Leo Kessler) 1986
18 Bugles at Dawn 1990
19 Sabres in the Sun 1991
20 Attack New York! ( As: Duncan Harding) 1994
21 Attack New York! 1994
22 Come Hell Or Highwater! 1994
23 Come Hell Or Highwater! ( As: Duncan Harding) 1994
24 The Hitler Werewolf Murders 1994
25 The Hitler Werewolf Murders ( As: Leo Kessler) 1994
26 Tobruk Rescue ( As: Duncan Harding) 1995
27 Tobruk Rescue 1995
28 Kommando: Hitler's Special Forces in the Second World War 1995
29 Kommando: Hitler's Special Forces in the Second World War ( As: Leo Kessler) 1995
30 Sink the Tirpitz 1996
31 Sink the Tirpitz ( As: Duncan Harding) 1996
32 The Bormann Mission ( As: Leo Kessler) 1997
33 The Bormann Mission 1997
34 Assault on St Nazaire 1997
35 Assault on St Nazaire ( As: Duncan Harding) 1997
36 Sink the Ark Royal 1997
37 Sink the Ark Royal ( As: Duncan Harding) 1997
38 Sink the Graf Spee ( As: Duncan Harding) 1998
39 Sink the Graf Spee 1998
40 Sink the Prince of Wales ( As: Duncan Harding) 1999
41 Sink the Prince of Wales 1999
42 The Balkan Chase 1999
43 Battle for Hitler's Eagle's Nest ( As: Leo Kessler) 2000
44 Battle for Hitler's Eagle's Nest 2000
45 Sink the Hood 2000
46 Sink the Hood ( As: Duncan Harding) 2000
47 Sink the Bismarck 2001
48 Sink the Bismarck ( As: Duncan Harding) 2001
49 The Screaming Eagles 2001
50 The Screaming Eagles ( As: Leo Kessler) 2001
51 Sink the Cossack 2001
52 Sink the Cossack ( As: Duncan Harding) 2001
53 Sink HMS Kelly 2002
54 Sink HMS Kelly ( As: Duncan Harding) 2002
55 Murder at Colditz ( As: Leo Kessler) 2002
56 Murder at Colditz 2002
57 The Great Escape 2002
58 The Great Escape ( As: Leo Kessler) 2002
59 Monty's Greatest Victory: The Drive for the Baltic April - May 1945 2002
60 Sink the Warspite ( As: Duncan Harding) 2002
61 Sink the Warspite 2002
62 Sirens of Dunkirk 2003
63 Sirens of Dunkirk ( As: Leo Kessler) 2003
64 Operation Long Jump 2004
65 Operation Long Jump ( As: Leo Kessler) 2004
66 The Blackout Murders 2004
67 The Blackout Murders ( As: Leo Kessler) 2004
68 The Field Marshal's Revenge: The Breakdown of a Special Relationship 2004
69 Hitler Youth Attacks! 2004
70 Hitler Youth Attacks! ( As: Leo Kessler) 2004
71 Clash In The Baltic: Ian Fleming's Secret Mission 2005
72 Clash In The Baltic: Ian Fleming's Secret Mission ( As: Duncan Harding) 2005
73 Convoy of Death ( As: Duncan Harding) 2005
74 Convoy of Death 2005
75 Massacre at Jutland ( As: Duncan Harding) 2006
76 Massacre at Jutland 2006
77 Assault on the Rock 2006
78 Assault on the Rock ( As: Duncan Harding) 2006
79 Prepared to Die ( As: Duncan Harding, With: Leo Kesseler) 2007
80 Prepared to Die 2007
81 Journey to No End 2010
82 Death Comes to a Deserter 2010
83 Death Comes to a Deserter ( As: Duncan Harding) 2010
84 Ramps Down, Troops Away! ( As: Duncan Harding) 2018
85 Ramps Down, Troops Away! 2018
86 The Mighty Fallen 2020
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 Patton 1970
2 48 Hours to Hammelburg: Patton's Secret Mission 1970
3 Bradley 1971
4 Skorzeny 1972
5 Hitler's Werewolves: The story of the Nazi resistance movement, 1944-1945 1972
6 Gehlen: Germany's Master Spy 1972
7 The Hunt for Martin Bormann: The Truth 1972
8 Finale at Flensburg 1973
9 Hunters from the Sky: The German Parachute Corps, 1940-1945 1974
10 A Bridge at Arnhem 1974
11 The Battle For Twelveland: An Account Of Anglo American Intelligence Operations Within Nazi Germany, 1939 1945 1975
12 Bloody Aachen 1976
13 Yorkshire at War: The Story of Fighting Yorkshire at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945 1980
14 Yorkshire at War: The Story of Fighting Yorkshire at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945 ( As: Leo Kessler, With: Eric Taylor) 1980
15 Death of a Division 1981
16 Siegfried: The Nazis' Last Stand 1982
17 The Home Front: Germany 1982
18 SS Werewolf 1982
19 '44 : In Combat from Normandy to the Ardennes 1984
20 44 : In Combat from Normandy to the Ardennes 1984
21 Ardennes: The Secret War 1985
22 '45: The Final Drive from the Rhine to the Baltic 1985
23 '45 the Final Drive from the Rhine to the Baltic 1985
24 The Other Battle of the Bulge: Operation Northwind 1986
25 Patton's Last Battle 1987
26 The Long March on Rome: The Forgotten War 1987
27 Britain Under Fire: The Blitz on Britain in World War Two 1987
28 The Poor Bloody Infantry: 1939-45 1987
29 The Three Star Blitz: The Baedeker Raids And The Start Of Total War, 1942 1943 1987
30 Jochen Peiper: Battle Commander SS Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler 1988
31 Hero: The Life and Death of Audie Murphy 1990
32 Warriors of Death. The Final Battles of Hitler's Private Bodyguard 1944-45 1991
33 Papa Goes to War: Ernest Hemingway in Europe 1944-45 1991
34 Bounce the Rhine 1992
35 March on London 1992
36 Slaughter Over Sicily: The Airborne Massacre 1992
37 The Battle of the Bulge: The Untold Story 1994
38 Last Assault: 1944 - The Battle of the Bulge Reassessed 1994
39 Death On A Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory, 1944 1996
40 Massacre at Malmedy 1996
41 Paths of Death and Glory: The Last Days of the Third Reich 1997
42 America's Forgotten Army: The True Story of the U.S. Seventh Army in WWII - And An Unknown Battle that Changed History 1999
43 West Wall: The Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line September 1944-March 1945 1999
44 A Travellers Guide to the Battle for the German Frontier 1999
45 Heydrich: Henchman Of Death 1999
46 Battleground Korea 2000
47 Hitler's Secret War: The Nazi Espionage Campaigns Against the Allies 2000
48 American Hero. the Life and Death of Audie Murphy 2000
49 Search for Gestapo Muller 2001
50 Ghost Front: The Ardennes Before The Battle Of The Bulge 2002
51 Disaster at Kasserine: Ike and the 1st Army in North Africa 1943 2003
52 American Deserter. General Eisenhower and the Execution of Eddie Slovik 2004
53 Hitler's Warriors: The final Battles of Hitler's Private Bodyguard, 1944-1945 2004
54 The Great German Escape: Covert Operations in the Battle of the Bulge December 1944 2009
55 SS Kommando 2010
Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: Battle Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Kursk: The Clash Of Armour (By: Geoffrey Jukes) 1969
2 Kursk: The Clash Of Armour 1969
3 Tarawa: A Legend is Born (By: David Mason, Barrie Pitt, Henry I. Shaw Jr.) 1969
4 Pearl Harbor 1969
5 Pearl Harbor (By: A.J. Barker) 1969
6 Midway: The Turning Point 1970
7 Anzio: The Bid for Rome 1970
8 Midway: The Turning Point (By: A.J. Barker) 1970
9 The Defense of Moscow (By: Geoffrey Jukes) 1970
10 The Defense of Moscow 1970
11 Anzio: The Bid for Rome (By: Christopher Hibbert) 1970
12 Leyte Gulf: Armada In The Pacific 1970
13 Bir Hacheim: Desert Citadel 1971
14 Leyte Gulf: Armada In The Pacific (By: Donald Macintyre) 1970
15 London's Burning (By: Constantine Fitzgibbon) 1970
16 Bir Hacheim: Desert Citadel (By: Richard Holmes) 1971
17 Vimy Ridge: 1914-18 1972
18 Beda Fomm: The Classic Victory (By: Kenneth John Macksey) 1971
19 Stalingrad: The Turning Point 1972
20 Battle of the Ruhr Pocket 1971
21 Ike's Last Battle: The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket April 1945 1971
22 Dien Bien Phu 1974
23 Vimy Ridge: 1914-18 (By: Kenneth John Macksey) 1972
24 Stalingrad: The Turning Point (By: Geoffrey Jukes) 1972
25 Dien Bien Phu (By: John Keegan) 1974
26 Ploesti: Oil Strike (By: John Sweetman) 1974
World War II Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Battle of Britain 1969
2 The Home Front: U.S.A. 1977
3 Blitzkrieg 1977
4 The Battle of the Atlantic 1977
5 Russia Besieged 1977
6 The War In the Desert 1977
7 The Rising Sun 1977
8 The Second Front 1978
9 Island Fighting 1978
10 Partisans and Guerillas 1978
11 Liberation 1978
12 China-Burma-India 1978
13 The Italian Campaign 1978
14 The Resistance 1979
15 The Battle of the Bulge 1979
16 Return to the Philippines 1979
17 Red Army Resurgent 1979
18 The Air War in Europe 1979
19 The Nazis 1979
20 The Soviet Juggernaut 1980
21 Road to Tokyo 1980
22 Across the Rhine 1980
23 War Under the Pacific 1980
24 Japan at War 1980
25 War in the Outposts 1980
26 The Commandos 1981
27 Prisoners of War 1981
28 The Secret War 1981
29 Battles for Scandinavia 1981
30 The Mediterranean 1981
31 Victory In Europe 1982
32 Italy at War 1982
33 Bombers over Japan 1982
34 The Neutrals 1982
35 The Home Front: Germany 1982
36 The Aftermath: Asia 1983
37 The Fall of Japan 1983
38 The Aftermath: Europe 1983
39 Prelude to War 1984
The Secret War Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Ultra in the Pacific (By: John Winton) 1993
2 Ultra at Sea (By: John Winton) 2022
3 The War in the Shadows 2023