"The War Merit Cross 1. Class and Higher Grades" by Dietrich Maerz & George Stimson consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 76 mm (w) x

measuring 76 mm (w) x 31

with a retractable depressed and slotted black doeskin medal bed

The silvered metal ferrule is magnetic and emblazoned with a repeating oak leaf motif

and several deaths occurred

edged by black “schwarz” Waffenfarbe piping

"The War Merit Cross 1. Class and Higher Grades" by Dietrich Maerz & George Stimson consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 76 mm (w) xNever before has the War Merit Cross 1. Class and the Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross been described in such detail. Years in the making and extensively using the existing archives the two authors Dietrich Maerz and George Stimson have delivered another solid and well researched book. For the first time regulations, award procedures, award numbers and distribution are covered in depth like never before. The main part discusses the manufacturers