The Waffen SS in the West: A Photographic Journal of the SS on Campaign

by Bob Carruthers

Overview

This photographic journal was originally published in the spring of 1941. It was edited by and carried a forward by Hauptsturmfhrer Gunter d'Alquen, commander of the SS Propaganda Kompanie and editor of the official SS paper, Das Schwarze Korps.Many of the pictures taken in this book feature the men of Waffen SS Standarte "Germania". In 1940 the men who bore the word Germania on their cuff bands were fighting as a motorised regiment under the command of SS-Standartenfhrer Karl-Maria Demelhuber.This is a unique account of the Waffen SS on campaign in the west from a primary source, edited by, and with an introduction by Emmy award winning author Bob Carruthers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473845084
Publisher:	Pen & Sword Books Limited
Publication date:	01/31/2020
Series:	Hitler's War Machine
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	148
File size:	72 MB
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About the Author

Bob Carruthers is an Emmy Award winning author and historian, who has written extensively on the Great War. A graduate of Edinburgh University, Bob is the author of a number of military history titles including the Amazon best seller The Wehrmacht in Russia.