SS: Hell on the Eastern Front - The Waffen-SS in Russia 1941-1945 - Hardcover

Ailsby, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862272093 ISBN 13: 9781862272095

Verlag: Spellmount Publishers Ltd, 2002

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A detailed account of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1941-45, its battles, its organisation, tactics, weapons and equipment. - Examines the Waffen-SS ideology and the military consequences of viewing the Russians as sub-humans. - Operation Barbarossa, June 1941 and the successes achieved through mastery of mechanized warfare and their unique esprit-de-corps. - The terrible winter of 1942 and the Russian counter-attack, contained by the Totenkopf Division, in the Demyansk Pocket. - Birth of Waffen-SS panzer and panzergrenadier divisions. - First-hand accounts and photographs tell the story of the recapture of Kharkov and the carnage at Kursk. - New tactics, such as the 'mobile pocket' followed the need for new defensive tactics after July 1943. - The 1944 campaign in northern Russia. The attempts of the Waffen-SS to halt the Russians at Narva, and its fighting withdrawal across Poland the eastern Prussia. - The collapse of the German front in southern Russia and the attempts of the Waffen-SS to hold the line. Includes accounts of the fighting in the Cherkassy and Kamanets-Poldolsk Pockets, and the annihilation of whole Waffen-SS divisions as 1944 came to a close. - The final offensives of the Waffen-SS in 1945 in Hungary and Germany including the fall of Berlin.

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• Verlag: Spellmount Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1862272093
• ISBN 13: 9781862272095
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192