text: Habe's sixth and last wife was Hungarian actress and singer Licci Balla; they wed in 1954.
  Prizes
  1942 Jerusalem Medaille
  1945 Luxembourg War Cross
  1972 Theodor-Herzl-Preis
  1976 Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz
  1977 Konrad-Adenauer-Preis
  Works
  Drei über die Grenze (1936, Three Over the Frontier)
  Eine Welt bricht zusammen (1937)
  Tödlicher Friede (1939), also published as Zu spät? (1939) and in American edition as Sixteen Days
  A Thousand Shall Fall (1941, Ob Tausend fallen, about his war experiences in the French Foreign Legion)
  Kathrine (1943, Kathrin oder der verlorene Frühling)
  Aftermath (1946, Wohin wir gehören)
  Walk in Darkness (1948, Weg ins Dunkel)
  The Black Earth (1952, Die Rote Sichel, a.k.a. Ungarischer Tanz)
  Our Love Affair with Germany (1953)
  Ich stelle mich (1954, All My Sins: An Autobiography)
  Off Limits (1955); Off Limits, English translation by Ewald Osers published in Great Britain by Harrap, London, 1956 with dust-wrapper by George Adamson
  Im Namen des Teufels (1956, The Devil's Agent, a.k.a. Agent of the Devil)
  Ilona (1960, Ilona)
  Die Tarnowska (1962; Countess Tarnovska, a.k.a. The Countess)
  Tod in Texas (1964, The Wounded Land: Journey Through a Divided America, a.k.a. Anatomy of Hatred: The Wounded Land)
  Meine Herren Geschworenen: Zehn große Gerichtsfälle aus der Geschichte des Verbrechens (1964, Gentlemen of the Jury: Unusual and Outstanding European Murder Trials)