Overview
The military career of Jochen Peiper, one of the most valiant and decorated officers of the Waffen SS, told through the main battles and campaigns, which involved the units under his command, especially the armored Kampfgruppen of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, starting from the fighting on the front Kharkov, between February and March 1943, passing through the fighting for the salient of Kursk, the intervention in Italy, the new campaign on the Ukrainian front between autumn and winter of 1943-44, fighting on the front of Normandy, the counter-offensive in the Ardennes, until the last fighting on the Hungarian front and in Austria. The analysis of the various battles told through the testimonies of the direct protagonists, the war reports of the period, the original documents, without forgetting the involvement in some war crimes, all accompanied as always, by an exceptional iconographic apparatus, maps, documents and images, coming from the military archives all over the world and from the main private collections, to make the discussion of the topics even more compelling and realistic. 334 archival photographs, 8 colour profiles
Full Product Details
Author: Massimiliano Afiero
Publisher: Kagero Oficyna Wydawnicza
Imprint: Kagero Oficyna Wydawnicza
ISBN: 9788395157509
ISBN 10: 8395157509
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 30 September 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Kagero and author Massimiliano Afiero have made a very nice job of this history piece which I think many interested in the history of WW2 will enjoy. * Military Model Scene *
I enjoyed reading this book and looking through the photographs provided. I found myself torn between the man covered in this book and the man I have always been lead to think of; the result is a book that made me think of Joachim Peiper in a new way and question what I thought I knew about him... * Armorama * Kagero and author Massimiliano Afiero have made a very nice job of this history piece which I think many interested in the history of WW2 will enjoy. * Military Model Scene *
Author Information
Born in was born in in Afragola Massimiliano Afiero has been interested in military history since his youth, specializing in the history of Axis units during the Second World War and particularly in the Waffen-SS. He is one of the few Italian historical researchers to have personally interviewed many veterans of the Waffen-SS. He has published numerous books dealing with foreign volunteers in the German armed forces during the Second World War, in Italian, Spanish and English. Since May 2008 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the bimonthly magazine Seconda Guerra Mondiale and in 2009, he began publication of Ritterkreuz. Since 2013, he has also managed the publication of the Fronti di Guerra series, also dedicated to the Second World War. Since January 2017 he has been Editor-in-Chief of The Axis Forces.
