A European anabasis
Western European volunteers in the German army and SS, 1940-1945
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Word Count
52,500 words, Guess
Page Count
210 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101909384526
- ISBN-139781909384521
- Library of Congress Control Number2014466267
- OCLC Control Number908371048
- Better World Books9781909384521
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL31266300M
Classifications
- LCCD757.1 .E88 2015
- LCCD757
Alternate Titles
- Western European volunteers in the German army and SS, 1940-1945
Description
Kenneth Estes studies the 100,000 West Europeans who fought against Russia as volunteers for the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS. A retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, Estes shows tremendous knowledge of combat and writes gripping battlefield prose. Two-thirds of the West European volunteers came from Spain and the Netherlands, yet Estes demonstrates wide range and covers Flemish, Walloon, French, Danish, and Norwegian combat units. Avoiding over-generalization, the author distinguishes carefully among the Danes and Flemings who fought competently with the SS-Wiking Division and later with Nordland, the courageous but poorly-armed Spanish, the ill-trained Dutch and French in Landstorm Nederland and SS-Charlemagne, and the Norwegians who after a first wave of enthusiasm held back altogether. Estes pulverizes the Nazi propaganda notion of a multinational European army defending 'Western civilization' against 'Bolshevism'.
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