Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945

This is the eighth Princeton Paperback printing and includes a new preface and postscript.The reason this book is so unusual and compelling is because its subject occupied so central a place in the most extraordinary and destructive phenomenon ever to threaten the structure of civilization and the values of humankind. As a specialized monograph detailing the history and experience of a single Waffen SS division, the original edition of the book stimulated questions, provoked responses, animated inquires and in time became caught up in the remarkable growth of public fascination with the Hitlerian era and the SS. In its own small way, Soldiers of Destruction helped to create the phenomenon that has now absorbed it.