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Sydnor, Charles W., JR.,, - SOLDIERS OF DESTRUCTION - The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, ND (copyright 1977), 1st edn. US, xvi, 372pp, 4 maps and 15 in text half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in metallic red and gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the SS Totenkopf Division (Death's Head), formed in October 1939 from SS elements guarding the concentration camps and from shadowy SS execution units working in Poland, both of which brought with them the brutal ethos to what became one of the most powerful and destructive SS Divisions, responsible for the massacre of 97 Norfolk Regiment prisoners at Paradis in 1940 France, resting and refitting in western France until the invasion of USSR in 1941, pulling out with 80% losses in October 1942 to France, reforming as Panzergrenadiers and helping to occupy Vichy France before returning to the Eastern front in February 1943 for the Kharkov-Kursk campaign, withdrawing via Warsaw and involved in Hitler's last-dtrch efforts to retake Budapest in 1945 before surrendering, edges tanned and faintly foxed, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,
GBP 21.00 [Appr.: EURO 24.5 US$ 26.59 | JP¥ 4142] Booknumber: 40937
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GBP 21.00 [Appr.: EURO 24.5 US$ 26.59 | JP¥ 4142] Booknumber: 40937
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