The Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front: A Photographic Record of the Waffen SS in the East

A photographic history of the notorious Nazi fighting force during Operation Barbarossa—from the Emmy Award-winning historian and author.

This is the illustrated history of the Waffen-SS—the armed political wing that grew out of the Schutzstaffel or Nazi party protection squads—on the Eastern Front. The life and death of the Waffen-SS can be traced in the surviving photographs, and the brooding saga of the decline from triumph into disaster is told through these powerful images which clearl...