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The Cruel Hunters: SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger Hitler´s Most Notorious Anti-Partisan Unit
French L. Maclean
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Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, over 50 b/w photographs, maps,. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 166 x 30. Weight in Grams: 830. Hitler's Most Notorious Anti-Partisan Unit. 336 pages, Ill.M. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JW. Dimension: 238 x 166 x 30. Weight: 828.
This is a brutal story – but, from the safety of fifty years distance in time – it is an extremely compelling one. It is also an enduring lesson that a military unit, formed under an evil ideology, led by a social outcast and composed of vicious criminals, will sink to its lowest common denominator – hate. The Dirlewanger Battalion, also known as “Sonderkommando (special commando) Dirlewanger” was perhaps the least understood, but at the same time the most notorious German SS anti-partisan unit in World War II. German propaganda correspondents and wartime photographers did not follow them in action. ... Read more
This is a brutal story – but, from the safety of fifty years distance in time – it is an extremely compelling one. It is also an enduring lesson that a military unit, formed under an evil ideology, led by a social outcast and composed of vicious criminals, will sink to its lowest common denominator – hate. The Dirlewanger Battalion, also known as “Sonderkommando (special commando) Dirlewanger” was perhaps the least understood, but at the same time the most notorious German SS anti-partisan unit in World War II. German propaganda correspondents and wartime photographers did not follow them in action. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764304835
SKU
V9780764304835
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About French L. Maclean
Colonel French L. MacLean, United States Army, (Ret.), served over thirty-four years in the Senior Service. Born in Peoria, Illinois, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1974, and later from the Army's School of Advanced Military Studies. He has written numerous history books under the Schiffer label.
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