Military 2019 SS

THE GERMAN WEHRMACHT IN WWII: UNIT HISTORIES: WAFFEN-SS, PANZER & ELITE TROOPS 75 Commanders of Auschwitz: The SS Officers Who Ran the Largest Nazi Concentration Camp 1940-45 Jeremy Dixon. Finally a single volume detailing the SS officers that served in the largestandmost infamousofHitler’sconcentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Inside you will meet the commandants, Lagerführers, doctors, dentists, Gestapo officials, adjutants, administration officers, and sentry commanders. Size: 8.5"x11" • 130 bw photos • 232pp. ISBN: 0-7643-2175-7 • hard • $59.95 Atrocities at Camp Mauthausen: A Vi- sual Documentation of the Holocaust . Two first hand accounts about Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, by Franz Zieres, commandant of Mauthausen, and Charles- Heinz Pilarski, a soldier in the German army who was court-martialed and imprisoned in thecamp.Thesememoirs,alongwithphotos taken upon the liberation of the camp, are a vivid record of the Final Solution. Size:9"x6"•24bwphotos•64pp. ISBN:0-7643-1777-6•soft•$19.95 The Cruel Hunters: SS-Sonderkommando Dirle- wanger–Hitler’s Most Notorious Anti-Partisan Unit French L. MacLean. The Dirlewanger Battalion, also known as “Sonderkommando Dirlewanger" was perhaps the least understood, but at the same time the most notorious German SS anti-partisan unit in WWII. Medieval in their outlook on war and certainly not indicative of many German military formations, this unit is a reflection of a segment of mankind gone mad in the inferno of WWII on the eastern front.Size:6"x9" •50bwphotos/maps•336pp.ISBN:978-0-7643-0483-5 hard•$35.00 The Camp Men: The SS Officers Who Ran the Nazi Concentration Camp System French L. MacLean. Inside these pages you will meet over 960 infamousmen– theofficersofNaziGermany’s Totenkopf (Death’s Head). These men stood on the front-line of the Nazi war to exterminate the Jews. With well over one hundred photos – a large portion previously unpublished – this is the largest collection of SS camp personnel photos ever to appear in one work. Size:8.5"x11"•140bwphotos/maps•384pp. ISBN:0-7643-0636-7•hard•$59.95 The Field Men: The SS Officers Who Led the Einsatzkommandos – the Nazi Mobile Killing Units FrenchMacLean.Menlinedupinfourmotorized columnsimmediatelybehindtheGermanArmyonJune 22,1941,asitpreparedtolaunchOperationBarbarossa, an attack designed to win the war. The Field Men coverstheentiregamut, fromtheorganizationofthe units,totheSSofficerswhoserved inthisscourgeon theEasternFront.Some380SSofficersaredescribed in fulldetailandextensivelyanalyzed. Size:8.5"x11"•175bwphotos/maps•232pp. ISBN:0-7643-0754-1•hard•$59.95 The Ghetto Men: The SS Destruction of the Jewish . April-May 1943 French MacLean. The 28-day siege of the Warsaw Ghetto was one of the most protracted large-scale urban battles in WWII. OHere is every fact concerning who, when, what and how the SS troops razed the Warsaw Ghetto. Men and officers of the Security Service and Gestapo are here as well as the units, weapons and tactics, and a day-by-day analysis of the fighting. Size:8.5"x11"•110bwphotos•224pp. ISBN:0-7643-1285-5•hard•$59.95 The Spanish in the SS and Wehrmacht, 1944-45: The Ezquerra Unit in the Battle of Berlin M. Gil Mart’nez. The story of those few Spaniards who refused toabandontheirGermancomrades intheirdesperatefight to hold Berlin in the last days of the war. This day-by-day accountofthe lastweeksofthewar includes information aboutanti-partisanoperationsoftheSpanish inthenorth of Italy, the combat together with the Walloons of Leon Degrelle,and theirparticipation inoperationsagainst the maquis inFrance. Size:7"x10"•270color/bwphotos•224pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-4271-4•hard•$45.00 SS Officers List (as of January 1942) SS-Stan- dartfuhrer to SS-Oberstgruppenfuhrer – As- signments and Decorations of the Senior SS Officer Corps . The January 1942 “Dienstalterliste" lists the hundreds of officers in the SS from full Colonel to General. Detailing their posts at that time during the war, this facsimile wartime publication also gives significant decorations they were awarded. Their ranks and most recent promotion dates are listed as well as State, Police and NSDAP posts. Size:8.5"x11"•45bwphotos•64pp. ISBN:0-7643-1061-5•soft•$19.95 In Perfect Formation: SS Ideology and the SS-Junk- erschule-Tölz Jay Hatheway. Extensive references to original source material on the underlying SS principles of blood, soil, and struggle as they were formalized in SS ideology. In support of his intricate linkages between ideology and its realized form, Hatheway has obtained over 100 previously unpublished photos of the SS officer training academy Tölz. More than a series of buildings, the structure of the Junkerschule was itself a metaphor for the subset of Nazi ideology. Size:6"x9"•100bwphotos•192pp. ISBN:0-7643-0753-3•hard•$29.95 The SS-Sonderkommando “Dirlewanger": A Memoir Rolf Michaelis, Editor. A rare look inside the Sonderkommando “Dirlewanger," the SS anti-partisan unit notorious for atrocities in Poland and Russia during WWII by a member of the unit from its formation to the end of the war who took part in nearly all its operations. Size:6"x9"•44bwphotos•128pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-4479-4•hard•$29.99 Himmler’s Cavalry: The Equestrian SS 1930-45 Paul J. Wilson. Dressed in black uniforms emblazoned with the SS flash, Heinrich Himmler’s horsemen carried the SS banner across the German countryside and to equestrian competitions throughout Germany and Europe. Wilson provides numerous anecdotes, statistics, and capsule biographies of Equestrian SS personnel. Size:6"x9"•17bwphotos•224pp. ISBN:0-7643-1112-3•hard•$29.95 Riding East: The SS Cavalry Brigade in Poland and Russia 1939-42 Mark C. Yerger. Riding East details the history of the SS Cavalry Brigade. It's supplemented by 109 photos, six maps, six Order of Battle charts, complete officer rosters 1939-42, feldpost numbers, details of primary commanders within the Brigade, as well information on the units and commanders it was subordinated to. Size:8.5"x11"•100bwphotos•224pp. ISBN:0-7643-0060-1•hard•$59.95 Allgemeine-SS: The Commands, Units and Leaders of the General SS Mark C. Yerger. The commands, units and leaders of the General SS are finally compiled into a single detailed refer- ence book. The biographical data for individuals alone adds vast detail to this fascinating topic. A detailed index allows referencing of individual commands or personalities. Size:8.5"x11"•120bwphotos/maps•256pp. ISBN:0-7643-0145-4•hard•$49.95 Police Battalions of the Third Reich Stephen Campbell.TherolethattheGermanPoliceBattalions playedinthedestructionoftheJewsandtheEastern EuropeannationalitiesthattheThirdReichhaddeemed superfluousordangerousislittleknown.TheGerman Police,oftenaidedbylocalauxiliariesshotatcloserange overamillionpeople in lessthantwoyears.Later in the war the battalions were formed into regiments and absorbed into the SS where they were active inthehuntforpartisanbandsbehindthefront lines. Size:8.5"x11"•120bwphotos•160pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-2771-1•hard•$59.95 Combat Operations of the German Ord- nungspolizei 1939-45: Polizei-Bataillone • SS-Polizei-Regimenter Rolf Michaelis. Covers the little known combat operations of the Ger- manOrdnungspolizeiduringWWII.Discussedare unit formations, personalities, and operations including frontline combat, security duties in occupied countries, as well as the participation of some battalions in ethnic cleansing atrocities. Also included are very rare photos, documents, soldbuchs and maps. Size:8.5"x11"•120bwphotos/maps•128pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-3659-1•hard•$45.00 Heinrich Himmler: A Photographic Chronicle of Hitler’s Reichsführer-SS Martin Månsson. Many books have been written about Heinrich Himmler and the SS though, strangely, no photo- graphic study has ever been assembled. Contained within this volume are over 380 photos of Himmler, illustrating his entire career – from a soldier during WWI through the years when he was the second most powerful man in Europe. Size:8.5"x11"•380bwphotos•200pp. ISBN:0-7643-1202-2•hard•$59.95 The Last Knight of Flanders: Remy Schrijnen and his SS-Legion “Flandern"/Sturmbrigade “Langemarck" Comrades on the Eastern Front 1941-45 Allen Brandt. This is the story of the Flemish volunteers of Germany’s famed Waffen-SS, told by those who were there. The book centers around Remy Schrijnen, the only Flemish volunteer to win the heralded bravery award, the Knight’s Cross to the Iron Cross. Size:6"x9"•110bwphotos/maps•272pp. ISBN:0-7643-0588-3•hard•$29.95 Images of theWaffen-SS: A Photo Chronicle of Germany’s Elite Troops Mark C. Yerger. This heavily illustrated photo album on the infamous Waffen-SS provides material for the model builder, vehicle enthusiast, memorabilia collector and those interested in SS holders of the Knight’s Cross. Size:9"x12"•320bwphotos•176pp. ISBN:0-7643-0078-4•hard•$49.95 Waffen-SS in the West: Holland, Belgium, France 1940 . The sought after original SS publi- cation Waffen-SS imWesten is available here for the first time. Translated into English and carefully reproduced, this rare SS book photographically documents the Waffen-SS campaigns in Holland, Belgium, and France during 1940. Size:8.5"x11"•130bwphotos•144pp. ISBN:0-7643-1553-6•hard•$29.95 The Mountain Troops of the Waffen-SS 1941-45 Roland Kaltenegger. The first comprehensive study on the little-known mountain troops of the Waffen-SS, complete with numerous photos and documentation. The 6th SS Mountain Division “Nord" and many other divisions are examined. Size:7"x10"•180bwphotos•160pp. ISBN:0-88740-813-3•hard•$24.95 German Mountain Troops inWWII: A Photo- graphic Chronicle of the Elite Gebirgsjäger Roland Kaltenegger. Under the emblem of the Edelweis, the soldiers of the German mountain corps fought on every front in WWII. During the war, the army alone formed a total of eleven mountain divisions, plus independent battalions and units. This chronicle offers the reader an ex- traordinary view into the world of these elite troops. Size:8.5"x11"•340bwphotos•272pp. ISBN:0-7643-2218-4•hard•$59.95