Waffen-SS

Waffen-SS

by Adrian Gilbert
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 25/06/2019

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From an award-winning and bestselling historian, the first comprehensive military history in over fifty years of Hitler's famous and infamous personal army: the Waffen-SS.


The Waffen-SS was one of the most feared combat organizations of the twentieth century. Originally formed as a protection squad for Adolf Hitler it became the military wing of Heinrich Himmler's SS and a key part of the Nazi state, with nearly 900,000 men passing through its ranks. The Waffen-SS played a crucial role in furthering the aims of the Third Reich which made its soldiers Hitler's political operatives. During its short history, the elite military divisions of the Waffen-SS acquired a reputation for excellence, but their famous battlefield record of success was matched by their repeated and infamous atrocities against both soldiers and civilians.


Waffen-SS is the first definitive single-volume military history of the Waffen-SS in more than fifty years. In considering the actions of its leading personalities, including Himmler, Sepp Dietrich, and Otto Skorzeny, and analyzing its specialist training and ideological outlook, eminent historian Adrian Gilbert chronicles the battles and campaigns that brought the Waffen-SS both fame and infamy.

ISBN:
9780306824661
9780306824661
Category:
Second World War
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
25-06-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hachette Books
Adrian Gilbert

Adrian Gilbert is an author who has written extensively on military and intelligence matters. Among his publications Waffen-SS: Hitler’s Army at War; the best-selling Sniper: One-on-One, and the Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War, the latter volume part of a series that won the Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature.

In the intelligence field, he was the author of the four-volume QED Spy Files series.

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