{"product_id":"ss-hell-on-the-eastern-front-the-waffen-ss-in-russia-1941-1945","title":"Christopher Ailsby: SS [2002] hardback","description":"A detailed account of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1941-45, its battles, its organisation, tactics, weapons and equipment. - Examines the Waffen-SS ideology and the military consequences of viewing the Russians as sub-humans. - Operation Barbarossa, June 1941 and the successes achieved through mastery of mechanized warfare and their unique esprit-de-corps. - The terrible winter of 1942 and the Russian counter-attack, contained by the Totenkopf Division, in the Demyansk Pocket. - Birth of Waffen-SS panzer and panzergrenadier divisions. - First-hand accounts and photographs tell the story of the recapture of Kharkov and the carnage at Kursk. - New tactics, such as the 'mobile pocket' followed the need for new defensive tactics after July 1943. - The 1944 campaign in northern Russia. The attempts of the Waffen-SS to halt the Russians at Narva, and its fighting withdrawal across Poland the eastern Prussia. - The collapse of the German front in southern Russia and the attempts of the Waffen-SS to hold the line. Includes accounts of the fighting in the Cherkassy and Kamanets-Poldolsk Pockets, and the annihilation of whole Waffen-SS divisions as 1944 came to a close.\u003cbr\u003e- The final offensives of the Waffen-SS in 1945 in Hungary and Germany including the fall of Berlin.","brand":"Ailsby, Christopher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531691413843,"sku":"9781862272095","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/ailsby-christopher-ss-hell-on-the-eastern-front-the-waffen-ss-in-russia-1941-1945-9781862272095-49104235921747.jpg?v=1682017723","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/ss-hell-on-the-eastern-front-the-waffen-ss-in-russia-1941-1945","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}