On the Devil's Tail: In Combat with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1945, and with the French in Indochina 1951-54

A collaborationist who fought for Germany during WWII and later for the French in Vietnam tells his eventful life story in this military memoir.

This is the riveting true story of Paul Martelli who fought on the Eastern Front in 1945 as a fifteen-year-old member of the 33rd Waffen-Grenadier-Division of the SS Charlemagne, and later, as a soldier with French forces in the Tonkin area of Vietnam.

Paul recounts his time at the Sennheim military training base; his experience of the German ...