The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-45

Gerald Reitlinger

ISBN 10: 0853681872 / ISBN 13: 9780853681878

Published by Arms & Armour Press, 1981

The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR001010798

Synopsis:

Based almost entirely on original German documents, including the captured files of the SS leadership, this book gives a final account of the Nazi Praetorian Guard. With steadily mounting tension, the story moves from the origins of the SS before 1923 to its supremacy, twenty years later, as the most appealing instrument of political and military terror known to history. The author sees the SS not as an historical accident, but as a tyrannical expression of bureaucracy in politics. It is with the administration and internal rivalries of the Nazi state that the book is mainly concerned: how the whole system worked out in peace, and above all in war. The author brought the objective eye of the historian to bear on this emotive subject and produced a book that is not only factual and absorbing but also a valid and vital contribution to the study of the Second World War. This is a classic work on the history of the SS.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-45
Publisher: Arms & Armour Press
Publication Date: 1981
Binding: Hardback
Condition: Good
Edition: 2nd Edition