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Sunday September 5, 2010

Battles of World War I
by Martin Marix Evans

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Battles of World War I January 0001

Martin Marix Evans

Spellmount -

9781841932262

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Price

2,250.00

$17.31

The war on the Eastern Front was a bloody struggle between two conflicting ideologies, and no one organization personified Nazism more than the SS, of which the Waffen-SS was the military arm. Using 250 previously unpublished photographs, many of which have come from the albums of individuals who took part in the war, Eastern Front SS Secret Archives depicts the titanic battles between the Waffen-SS and the Red Army on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945. The photographs convey an impression of the life of an SS stormtrooper in the frontline during Hitler's crusade against communism. The book illustrates such key battles in the lore of the Waffen-SS as Operation Barbarossa, Demyansk, Kharkov, Kursk, Cherkassy, and Budapest. As the end drew near, many Waffen-SS soldiers chose death over defeat and surrender