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Stuart Smith draws on years of in-depth research to uncover the truth about Skorzeny's career and complex personality. From his background as a student radical in Vienna, to his bloody service with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front, his surprise rebirth as a commando, and his intriguing post-war career and mysterious fortune, this book tells Otto Skorzeny's story in full - warts and all - for the first time.
Stuart Smith draws on years of in-depth research to uncover the truth about Skorzeny's career and complex personality. From his background as a student radical in Vienna, to his bloody service with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front, his surprise rebirth as a commando, and his intriguing post-war career and mysterious fortune, this book tells Otto Skorzeny's story in full - warts and all - for the first time.
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Maps
1. The Knowledge of Pain
2. Accidental Soldier
3. Thugs in Field Grey
4. The Liberator of Mussolini
5. Special Ops and High-Value Targets
6. Miracle Weapons
7. The Stauffenberg Plot - July 1944
8. The Scherhorn Affair
9. The SS Changes Tack
10. Operation Panzerfaust: Budapest, October 1944
11. Everything on One Card: Operation Greif
12. Operation Greif: Mission and Aftermath
13. Implosion: The Schwedt Bridgehead
14. Skorzeny's Last Stand
15. Trial and Errors
16. Escape from Darmstadt
17. Apocalypse Soon: Preparing for World War III
18. Neo-Nazis and Colonel Nasser: Skorzeny's Wilderness Years
19. The Years of Plenty
20. Ghosts of the Past: Skorzeny's Last Years
Epilogue: Man and Myth
Glossary
Note on the Waffen-SS
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
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Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Gebunden |
ISBN-13: | 9781472829450 |
ISBN-10: | 147282945X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Smith, Stuart |
Hersteller: | Bloomsbury USA |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 241 x 161 x 40 mm |
Von/Mit: | Stuart Smith |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 18.09.2018 |
Gewicht: | 0,731 kg |
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Maps
1. The Knowledge of Pain
2. Accidental Soldier
3. Thugs in Field Grey
4. The Liberator of Mussolini
5. Special Ops and High-Value Targets
6. Miracle Weapons
7. The Stauffenberg Plot - July 1944
8. The Scherhorn Affair
9. The SS Changes Tack
10. Operation Panzerfaust: Budapest, October 1944
11. Everything on One Card: Operation Greif
12. Operation Greif: Mission and Aftermath
13. Implosion: The Schwedt Bridgehead
14. Skorzeny's Last Stand
15. Trial and Errors
16. Escape from Darmstadt
17. Apocalypse Soon: Preparing for World War III
18. Neo-Nazis and Colonel Nasser: Skorzeny's Wilderness Years
19. The Years of Plenty
20. Ghosts of the Past: Skorzeny's Last Years
Epilogue: Man and Myth
Glossary
Note on the Waffen-SS
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
---|---|
Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Gebunden |
ISBN-13: | 9781472829450 |
ISBN-10: | 147282945X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Smith, Stuart |
Hersteller: | Bloomsbury USA |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 241 x 161 x 40 mm |
Von/Mit: | Stuart Smith |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 18.09.2018 |
Gewicht: | 0,731 kg |