A history of the SS, the Nazi Party's military arm, woven around the life and career of SS chief, Heinrich Himmler. The author reveals the SS rituals; how it fu

The SS grew out of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler's obsession to prevent the treachery they believed to have caused the German defeat in the First World War.

The definitive history of the SS by an acclaimed expert.

In Nazi Germany, they were called the Schutzstaffeln. The world would know them as the dreaded SS—the most loyal and ruthless enforcers of the Third Reich. It

This military history examines one of the most famous of the Waffen-SS divisions, the Death's Head. The author describes the formation of the division, its men