Description
Product ID: | 9780752467290 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Hitler's Vikings |
Subtitle: | The History of the Scandinavian Waffen-SS: The Legions, the SS-Wiking and the SS-Nordland |
Authors: | Author: Jonathan Trigg |
Page Count: | 288 |
Subjects: | Military history, Military history, Second World War, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Second World War, Fascism & Nazism, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The Nazis’ dream of a world dominated by legions of Aryan `supermen’, forged in battle and absolutely loyal to Adolf Hitler, was epitomised by the Waffen-SS. In Hitler’s Vikings, Jonathan Trigg details the battles these men fought and what inspired them to join the Waffen-SS, based in part on interviews with surviving veterans. The Nazis’ dream of a world dominated by legions of Aryan ‘supermen’, forged in battle and absolutely loyal to Hitler, was epitomised by the Waffen-SS. Created as a supreme military élite, it grew to become Nazi Germany’s ‘second army’, an immense force totalling almost one million men by the end of the War. They served at first in national legions but were then brought together in the Wiking Panzer Division and the Nordland Panzer-grenadier Division. In Hitler’s Vikings, Jonathan Trigg details the battles these men fought and what inspired them to join the Waffen-SS, based wherever possible on interviews with surviving veterans. Many of the photographs reproduced here have never before been published. Hitler’s ‘Vikings’ were amongst the last men still fighting in the ruins of Berlin in 1945 — their story is truly remarkable. Jonathan Trigg served in the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, reaching the rank of Captain and completing tours in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and the Middle East. He is an established writer on military history, with a particular interest in foreign volunteer formations in the Second World War. Hitler’s Vikings is his fourth volume in Spellmount’s Hitler’s Legions series. |
Imprint Name: | The History Press Ltd |
Publisher Name: | The History Press Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2012-10-01 |