Otto Skorzeny : My Commando Operations: the Memoirs of Hitler's Most Daring Commando

by JOHNSTON DAVID

• ISBN13: 9780887407185
• ISBN10: 0887407188
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: Schiffer Pub Ltd

Summary

Skorzeny lays down the way proffesional soldiers felt after the defeat of their country in WW II. This book follows his rise from artillery officer to top leader of the Commando service, and tells many of the secrets to their success. He talks about the intelligence war and the failures of German strategic intelligence, as well as many of the successes of the allied effort. While the translation is less than perfect, it gives the feel of sitting down and talking with Skorzeny as he reviews the dark years of the war and the atrocities commited by both sides. A story of undaunted courage and limitless valor, a must read for any serious student of WW II or military intelligence.

Table of Contents

On the Right of Self-determination of Peoples	p. 10
The Anschluss	p. 21
Waffen-SS	p. 33
Why we didn't land in England & take Gibraltar	p. 41
From the English Channel to the Balkans	p. 52
Unknown facts about the flight to England by Rudolf Hess (May 10, 1941)	p. 64
Barbarossa	p. 75
Continual Treason	p. 85
Why we didn't take Moscow	p. 102
The "Unconditional Surrender" The Truth About Stalingrad	p. 126
Don't Shoot!	p. 141
Why Hitler Didn't Build the Atomic Bomb The Revenge Weapons	p. 158
From the Best U-Boats to the new "Synthetic Materials"	p. 171
From Sicily to Remagen	p. 183
Planned Operations	p. 201
Hitler's Order: You Must Find and Free the Duce! Operation Alarich	p. 228
Searching for the Duce	p. 247
The Freeing of the Duce	p. 265
July 20, 1944	p. 285
Operation Panzerfaust	p. 303
Griffin	p. 329
Vlasov and Bandera Nicolai, Canaris & Gehlen	p. 362
Operation Freischutz	p. 385
Adrian von Folkersam Missing Walter Girg & His Last Mission	p. 396
Schwedt on the Oder Last Reunion with Vienna	p. 412
Nuremberg	p. 432
The Most Dangerous Man in Europe	p. 454
Epilogue	p. 462
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