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Title: The Ss: Hitler's Instrument of Terror by Gordon Williamson ISBN: 0-87938-905-2 Publisher: MBI Publishing Pub. Date: March, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book on Hilters elite Guard, The Waffen SS
Comment: I loved this book. Williamson chronicles these elite soldiers from Poland to the end of the war. He gives an objective account of their truly amazing performance on the eastern front as well as their darker side. His book descibes armies as well as individual soldiers accounts. He has written about their heroic deeds and infamous acts. His liberal distribution of photos gives the reader a good ideal of all the major players involved. He has done his homework in researching these units. He describes their performance in battle and has many fascinating insights into their experiences. For example: Field Marshal Model apologizes to Regimental commander Otto Kumm that he understands the rough time his unit has experienced but can't afford to relieve them. Kumm asks the Field Marshal if he would like to inspect the regiment on parade outside. Model is shocked to see only 35 men standing out front in the cold.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well worth the $$
Comment: Williamson's history of the German SS is a very readible, very comprehensive work on one of the world's most notorious organizations. His writing from a neutral stand point is a breath of fresh air -- permitting readers to draw their own conclusions on the nature of the SS and the men (and women) who filled it's ranks. The Waffen-SS, Hitler Youth, RHSA, SD, Gestapo, concentration camps, einsatzgruppen (death squads), commercial enterprises, Himmler's theories on Race and heredity ... it's all here - laid out in painstaking detail.
The book traces the SS from it's tiny beginnings in the 1920's, its growth in the early 30's, thru to it's final days with the collapse of Nazi Germany. Actually, Williamson goes even further back to explain the grim mood of Germany at the close of World War I and how this paved the way for the fledgling Nazi party. Many significant details of how the SS interfaced and was intertwined with organizations such as the SA, the Wehrmacht the German government (before Hitler became the absolute ruler) and the regular police are laid out for the reader's inspection. It's also quite illuminating to discover how many invaded countries supplied willing volunteers to the SS. Many fascinating facts and stories are related.
The book itself is durably bound in a hard cover with a handsome black paper jacket. Inside are a wealth of photos and reproduced posters - combat, personnel and civilian - complete with descriptions, which allow one to gain a closer understanding of the units and men that made up the Nazi party's protection and security arm.
Have an interest in pre-war and World War II Germany? If so, this is a book you will want for your collection.
Highly recommended
~P~
Rating: 5
Summary: A Wonderful Read
Comment: It is an extremely wonderful book. Spectacular! It is highly recommended for those interested in the SS and all of its doings. I would like to recommend Masters of Death : SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust in addition to this book.
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Title: The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945 by Gerald Reitlinger ISBN: 0306803518 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: May, 1989 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's Ss (Classic Military History) by Heinz Hohne, Heinze Hohne, Richard Barry ISBN: 0141390123 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Himmler: Reichs Fuhrer-SS by Peter Padfield ISBN: 0304358398 Publisher: Cassell Pub. Date: 31 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Masters of Death : The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust by RICHARD RHODES ISBN: 0375708227 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich by William L. Shirer ISBN: 0671728687 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 15 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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