Joachim Peiper: A New Biography of Himmler's SS Commander (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780764326592)

In this new historical investigation, German historian Jens Weste-meier portrays the rise and fall of an SS war criminal, and demolishes persistent myths of a Nazi icon. The picture revealed here is at odds with the popular Peiper mythology created by wartime and contemporary National Socialist propaganda, novels, motion pictures, and right-wing Peiper biographies. Using primary sources and personal interviews, a compelling image of the SS colonel emerges. The result is a highly readable and scholarly account with the first complete picture of Joachim Peiper. Now, a previously little understood Waffen-SS icon comes to life in a book that is at once an important contribution for our understanding of World War II history, as well as the place of the Waffen-SS in Hitler's Third Reich.

Author: Jens Westemeier
ISBN-10: 0764326597
ISBN-13: 9780764326592
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2007
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.10lbs
Size: 11.10h x 8.80w x 1.20d