Author:
Tucker-Jones, Anthony, author.
ImprintYorkshire ; Philadelphia : Pen & Sword Military, 2022.
Descriptionix, 228 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:Panzer elite -- Policemen and mountaineers -- Himmler's foreign volunteers -- Hausser's Junkerschulen -- Into battle with an SS corps -- Waffen-SS and the ghettos -- Fought to a standstill -- Leibstandarte's Italian coup -- Das Reich and the Maquis -- Hitlerjugend at Ardenne Abbey -- Hohenstaufen's Normandy hills -- Frundsberg at Hill 112 -- The iron fist -- Loyal Catholic Ukrainians -- The SS flatten Warsaw -- Hohenstaufen's Arnhem victory -- Budapest massacre -- Dietrich's autumn mist -- Himmler's winter solstice -- Humiliation in Hungary -- Skorzeny's commandos -- Hitler's British Nazis -- Superheroes or monsters -- Epilogue: to the last.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222) and index.
Note:The Waffen-SS was one of the most formidable German military formations of the Second World War - feared for its tenacity and ruthlessness in battle, notorious for the atrocities it committed. This is the full history of the Waffen-SS from the early 1930s to 1945.
