The story of the Waffen SS from its origins as a small bodyguard
unit, to a national elite protection and fighting force. The
author looks at their combat experiences on the battlefront, and
their acceptance of foreign volunteers into the Verfuegungstruppe
from as early as 1938. The question of SS atrocities is examined,
as is Allied misbehaviour.
Fine in d/w - 216pp, 43 photos, maps
& badges, index
Simo Häyhä, nicknamed
"White Death" by the Soviet army, was a Finnish soldier, and is
the most successful sniper in history. During the Winter War
(1939–1940) between Finland and the Soviet Union, he began his
duty as a sniper against the Red Army. Working in temperatures
between minus 20 and minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 4 and minus
40 degrees Fahrenheit), and dressed completely in a white
camouflage suit, Häyhä was credited with 500+ confirmed kills
against Soviet soldiers. This is his story.
This copy suffered slight damage in transit. The bottom corners
and foot of the boards are bumped. All internals and text are as
new.
New (but slightly damaged) in pictorial boards - Large format, 135pp, numerous b/w photos, maps &
illustrations
Apali OY, 2008
ISBN 9789525026528
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OPEN ROAD TO FARAWAY : ESCAPES
FROM NAZI POW CAMPS 1941-1945
by Andrew S Winton
The author, from the village of Woolfords near Lanark, was a
student at the Edinburgh College of Art before enlisting with the
RAF. Shot down over Germany in September 1941, he spent the next
four years attempting to escape from Nazi Prisoner of War Camps in
Germany Czechoslovakia and Poland. Following one escape of 17
days, he experienced the horrors of Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
Andrew and his comrades were eventually handed over to the
Americans by the Russians at the River Elbe. After the war he gave
evidence at the Nuremberg Trials.
The story of Henri le Caron, "perhaps the most daring spy who ever
lived". He operated for the Canadian Government against Fenians
and their threat of an Irish-American invasion of Canada, and also
aided the British Government to defeat the Irish bombing campaign.
