The Black Angels by Rupert Butler

[Woolgar]

Just finished this great read about the Waffen SS.

An older book but nicely and easily written and gives a great insight into the battles and campaigns particularly Barbarossa

Nick

[Ilse]

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Try The Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Guard at War, 1939-45 by George H. Stein. It is a much better book, in history and sources.

Rupert Butler tends to use sources based on other authors without any primary research. Not a proper way to write history books.

[Mark C. Yerger]

I wouldn't start a fire with anything Butler writes

[Woolgar]

Try The Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Guard at War, 1939-45 by George H. Stein. It is a much better book, in history and sources.

Rupert Butler tends to use sources based on other authors without any primary research. Not a proper way to write history books.

Thanks for the info

Nick

[Ilse]

Thanks for the info

Nick

You are welcome.


Here is a couple others that I found very good...

The Black Corps: The Structure and Power Struggle of the Nazi SS by Robert Lewis Koehl

Anatomy of the SS State by Hans Buchheim, Martin Broszat, Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, Elizabeth Helmut Krausnick

Allegemeine SS: The Commands, Units and Leaders of the General SS by Mark Yerger.

Last Victory in Russia: The SS-Panzerkorps and Manstein's Kharkov Counteroffensive - February-March 1943 by Nipe