cerberus publishing 2002 (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

blackhardbound 4to ~ 4º (quarto). large book. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first printing (NAP) of this deluxe edition (1966 original) . ~ glossy b&w photo frontis. xxvii+324p. glossy pages throughout. 16 pages of full color glossy plates. glossy b&w photo illustrations throughout. select bibligraphy. index. world history. world war ii. nazi germany third reich. military history. ~ A feature common to the three great European totalitarian dictatorships of our time ~ Stalin's Russia, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany ~ was the establishment of a party militia alongside the regular state police and armed forces. Originally the instrument of terror and repression, Hitler's SS included an 'armed' branch that had been formed out of his bodyguard ~ the Leibstandarte. With the advent of war more and more SS regiments were established and trained to become the Waffen~SS ~ the crack military branch of Hitler's Elite Guard. During World War Two the Waffen~SS proved to be an efficient, formidable and ruthless fighting machine. Halting and rolling back the Allies in such places as Kharkov, Warsaw, Normandy, the Ardennes and Berlin. It effectively postponed the ultimate collapse of Hitler's Third Reich. Drawing on the captured records from the many branches of the SS ~ including Heinrich Himmler's own vast archive ~ the author, George H Stein, has written a major history of this elite army. The author shows how, despite obstruction by Hitler's military chiefs, the Waffen~SS grew from a praetorian guard of barely 28,000 men at the beginning of the war to a combat~hardened army of more than 500,000 in 1945. The structure and organisation of the Waffen~SS is examined in detail. The rigid personnel selection and intensive physical, military and ideological training that helped create a tough and dedicated cadre around which the ever~growing army relied. The author discusses the methods used by the Waffen~SS to mobilise foreign manpower (more than half the men wearing its uniform in 1945 were not native Germans), its relations with the Wehrmacht, its successes and failures in battle, and its record of atrocities.

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 160pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 1841451096.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original deep navy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back and front. Quarto. 10'' x 8''. Contains 160 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout with 16 pp colour section to the centre. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with light rubbing to the tips, not price clipped, £19.99. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. AEROPLANES.