Ray Cowdery
Ray R. Cowdery (1941) is an American author of books about World War II, Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler topics, including the WW II jeep, the original Volkswagen and the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. The author is fluent in German, and visited Berlin and Nazi Germany sites dozens of times since the mid-1970s, seeking out countless facts and artifacts for archive, including Third Reich German magazines and newspapers.[1] The author had a career in international business, and has researched the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic over a period of many years.
Cowdery authored two best-selling volumes of the history of the World War II jeep, and co-authored a guidebook to Nazi Germany identity documents.[2] Cowdery's two All-American Wonder books detail almost all necessary knowledge to achieve near-perfect restoration of WW II jeeps;[3] and Cowdery's production numbers of early, prestandardized jeeps, quoted in Volume I, are generally considered the most accurate.[4]
Cowdery personally engaged the mythical existence of completely knocked-down (or CKD) jeep kits in-a-crate, that are sometimes believed to have survived World War II unassembled, and considered somewhat of a "Holy grail" by collectors. For some 15 years he had a standing offer of $50,000 US for an authentic WW II "jeep-in-a-crate", without a single person coming forth.[5]
Books [6][edit]
- Ich Kampfe / I Fight – Facsimile Edition, By Adolf Hitler, translated by Cowdery, Victory WW2 Publishing ltd., 1982
- Nazi Buckles: Psychology and the Fighting Spirit, Victory WW2 Publishing Ltd., 1982
- Nazi Para-Military Organizations and Their Badges, Victory WW2 Publishing Ltd., 1985
- All American Wonder: Information Regarding the History, Production, Features and the Restoration of Military Jeeps 1941-1945, (with Merrill Madsen), USM Publishing, 1986
- Capone's Chicago, (with Richard T. Enright), Northstar Maschek Books, 1987
- All-American Wonder, Volume 2: The Military Jeep, 1941-1945, USM Publishing, 1990
- Hitler: The Hoffmann Photographs, Northstar Commemoratives, 1990
- All American Wonder, Volume 1 Revised Edition, Victory WW2 Publishing ltd., 1993
- Dein KDF-Wagen, Victory WW2 Publishing Ltd., 1993
- Nazi Militaria Fake or Real ?, Victory WW2 Publishing Ltd., 1993
- Reinhard Heydrich: Assassination, (with Peter Vodenka), Victory WW2 Publishing Ltd., 1994, ISBN 9780910667425 Search this book on
. - Katyn: A Documentary Account of the Evidence, Victory WW2 Publishing Ltd., 1995
- Papers Please!: Identity Documents, Permits and Authorizations of the Third Reich, Victory WW2 Publishing ltd., 1996
- Masters of Ceremony, Victory WW2 Publishing Ltd., 1998
- Hitlers Heimatland / Hitler's Native Land, Language: German, English, Victory WW2 Publishing Ltd., 2001
- Der KdF Wagen (The Strength Through Joy Car), (with Josephine Cowdery, and Volkswagen), Victory WW2 Publishing Ltd., 2002
- The New German Reichschancellery in Berlin 1938-1945, (with Josephine Cowdery), Victory WW2 Publishing Ltd., 2003
- German Print Advertising, 1933-1945, (with Josephine Cowdery), Victory WW2 Publishing Ltd., 2004
References[edit]
- ↑ The New German Reichschancellery in Berlin 1938-1945: Josephine Cowdery, Ray Cowdery – Amazon Books
- ↑ Reinhard Heydrich: Assassination: Ray R. Cowdery – Amazon Books
- ↑ Allen (2004), p. 35.
- ↑ Allen (2004), p. 24.
- ↑ Allen, Jim (2004). Jeep Collector's Library. MotorBooks International. p. 44. ISBN 9781610590549. Search this book on
- ↑ Ray Cowdery: Books, Biography – Amazon.com
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