Buy this book on-line MESSENGER,CHARLES: : HITLER'S GLADIATOR:The Life and Times of Oberstgruppenfuhrer and Panzergeneral-Oberst der Waffen-SS Sepp DietrichLONDON.BRASSEY'S,1988. ISBN 0080312071.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no clip to dw/dj.Red,white and black
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clean.Contents bright,tight and clean.Pale grey paper-covered bds with red ink stamped letters to spine/backstrip only and plain white eps.8vo,xvi+245pp includes b/w photographic portrait frntis with another 37 b/w photographs;14 b/w maps, an intro, appendices(3);source notes, 5pp biblio and an index.
It is hard for anyone who lived through the years which saw the emergence of National Socialism in Germany and all the horrors of the Nazi regime in the Second World War to think objectively about either the events or the personalities of that era.For those who came later, the period tends to be so enveloped in mythology that they find it hard to separate fact from fiction.Only now are we beginning to arrive at reality.In this book Messenger has given us his product of deep research into that reality,drawing a broad picture of the story of the German nation from the end of one World War to the end of the
next.The main thread running through it is drawn from the life and achievements of a man who,despite his close personal association with Adolf Hitler, his own humble origins
and his intellectual limitations,was to prove an effective,if unusual soldier who rose to command an SS Panzer Army in the Battle of the Bulge.It is impossible to dissassociate
SS-Oberstgruppenfuhrer und General der Waffen SS Josef(Sepp) Dietrich from the excesses of the Hitler regime.His position was far too close to the heart of the Nazi Party and to Hitler himself for him to have been other than an acccessory after the fact of much that befell,despite his protestation that he was first and foremost a non-political soldier.Furthermore,as his story shows,he was twice convicted for brutalities as a war criminal and as a participant in "The Night of the Long Knives".However,Messenger also draws a picture of a man who was devoted to his soldiers and who led them through some of
the fiercest fighting and harshest conditions in the history of war.In doing so,Messenger
has not sought to exonerate Dietrich but rather to give us as objective an account of the
man's life and times as the available evidence will allow.
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