Ebook: Waffen-SS: Hitler's Army at War
Author: Gilbert Adrian
- Tags: 1900-1999, History, Military history, Military campaigns, Weltkrieg, World War 1939-1945 / Campaigns / Europe, World War 1939-1945 / Germany, Waffen-SS, Waffen-SS / History, Germany / History Military / 20th century, World War (1939-1945), Europe, Germany
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Hachette Books
- City: New York;NY
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
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 50 years....