A biography of the ruthless Waffen-SS commander focusing on his point
of view while fighting for Nazi Germany during World War II. “A bad
reputation has its commitments.” So wrote home Jochen Peiper from
the fighting front in the East in 1943, characterizing his
battle-hardened command during the World War II. Peiper’s War is a
new serious work of military history by the renowned author Danny S.
Parker which presents a unique view off the Second World War as seen
from a prominent participant on the dark side of history. Peiper’s
War follows the wartime career of Waffen SS Colonel Jochen Peiper, an
Aryan prodigy who was considered a hero in the Third Reich. Peiper had
been Heinrich Himmler’s personal adjutant in the early years of the
war, and, having procured a field command in Hitler’s namesake
fighting force, the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, he become famous for a
flamboyant and brutal style of warfare on the Eastern Front. There, in
his sphere, few prisoners were taken, and motives of racial genocide
were never far from unspoken orders. Transferred to the west,
Peiper’s battlegroup incinerated a tiny town in Northern Italy and
killed the village mayor and priest. Being well-connected to Himmler
and other generals of the period, Peiper finds a place in the
narrative as a storied witness to the inner workings of the Nazi elite
along with other prominent SS officers such as Kurt Meyer. In this
meticulously researched work, we witness the apex and then death
spiral of Nazi military intentions as Peiper fights for Germany across
every front in the conflict. Peiper’s War provides a telling
inside look at Hitler’s war and then how the dark secrets of his
security-minded command were improbably unearthed at the end of the
conflict by an obscure top-secret surveillance facility in the United
States. Praise for Peiper’s War “This is a well-researched work
with detailed footnotes. The photograph section is invaluable in
appreciating the destruction wrought by Peiper in Russia and Italy.”
—ARMOR
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The Wartime Years of SS Leader Jochen Peiper, 1941–44
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781526743435
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Frontline Books (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter