The Wartime Years
of SS Leader, Jochen Peiper, 1941−44. Peiper’s
War is a new serious work of military history which presents
a unique view off the Second World War as seen from a
prominent participant on the dark side of history. Peiper
was a handsome Aryan prodigy who was considered a hero in
the Third Reich and had been Heinrich Himmler’s
personal adjutant in the early years of the war. Having
procured a field command in Hitler’s namesake fighting
force, the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, he become famous for
a flamboyant and brutal style of warfare on the Eastern
Front. There few prisoners were taken, and motives of racial
genocide were never far from unspoken orders. Transferred to
the west, Peiper’s battlegroup incinerated a tiny
town, Boves, in Northern Italy and killed the village mayor
and priest. Peiper was convicted in the Malmedy massacre
trial and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted,
with Peiper serving 12 years in prison. Being well-connected
to Himmler and other generals of the period, Peiper finds a
place in the narrative of the inner workings of the Nazi
elite.
A definitive
study on the legendary Waffen-SS Unit, 'Grossdeutschland',
containing many extraordinary, recently unearthed pictures
from European archives. Never previously published, these
provide a unique perspective on one of Germany's most famous
divisions in World War II. The wealth of pictorial
information is supplemented with veteran's testimony,
capturing the unique "esprit de corps" of the battle
hardened men, NCO's and the inspiring commanders,of this
elite unit.
As new in
plastic sleeved d/w - Large format, 226pp, 387 photos
UNIFORMS, ORGANISATION &
HISTORY OF THE GERMAN POLICE: VOL.2
by John R Angolia & Hugh Page Taylor
This massive volume documents in
incredible detail the uniforms, shoulder boards, collar
tabs, uniforms of Police Generals, specific insignia,
awards, decorations, belts and buckles. It details the
history, organization and uniforms of five of the major
branches of the complex Third Reich Police organization: the
Protection, Traffic and Municipal Police, the Gendarmerie
(including the motorized branch) and the Technical Emergency
Corps (TN). Appendices provide complete details
of the organization and command of the Protection Police,
Landjagerei/ Gendarmerie, Motorized Gendarmerie and TN
ever compiled
New in decorative boards - 808pp,
1083 photos & illustrations
An account of German Paratroopers in the Poland
Campaign, 1939. Although the fledgling paratroop operations
in Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940, and on Crete in
1941, attracted worldwide attention, less well-known is that
the use of airborne forces had been planned for the invasion
of Poland in 1939, in an act that began the Second World
War. On several occasions the men of Parachute Regiment 1
were sitting ready in their Ju52 transports, fully equipped
and ready to go. Many of these young and in-experienced
paratroopers would go on to experience the full horrors of
warfare and for some of them, the Polish Campaign would end
in a ‘hero‘s death’. The author uses war diaries, maps,
contemporary documents and photographs, including those from
various private collections around the world.
The bombing
of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War was the first mass air
attack on a densly populated town. It was carried out at the
behest of the Spanish Nationalist Government by its allies,
the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist
Italian Aviazione Legionaria. It was a war crime by
definition, even before the work of Pablo Picasso brought
its full horror to the world's attention. A huge
international outcry resulted whose echo continues to shake
our consciences. The book includes a Spanish language DVD
which tells the story through the eyes of those who were
there and well known military historians.
Spanish
text.
As new in illustrated boards -
Large format, 104pp, c200 b/w & colour illustrations,
DVD
