Product Description: The infamous KGB of Cold War renown was the successor to a series of equally lethal state security agencies that date from the early days of the Russian Revolution: the Cheka, OGPU, NKVD and MVD. Stalin’s Secret Police begins by describing the harsh state security used by the despotic Tsars from the time of Ivan the Terrible...read more

Product Description: The divisions of the Waffen-SS were the elite of Hitler’s armies in World War II. SS-Leibstandarte is an in-depth examination of the first Waffen-SS unit to be formed, the SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. The book explores the background of the unit’s formation, including its origins as the Führer’s bodyguard, the men it recruited, the key figures involved in the division, its organization, training, uniforms and insignia...read more

Product Description: The divisions of the Waffen-SS were the elite of Hitler’s armies in WWII. SS-Hitlerjugend is an in-depth examination of the unit formed in 1943 from veterans of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division and members of the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) organization...read more

Product Description: The use of terror has been a characteristic of Russia from the days of the Tsars. The Okhrana was the oppressive police force of the Romanovs. Then came the Cheka, the OGPU, SMERSH and the NKVD-organizations that used terror to control every aspect of military and civilian life...read more

Details the history of the 20,000-member Nazi organization, based on the Gestapo's own archives and eyewitness accounts, exploring its development, key figures such as Reinhardt Heydrich and Heinrich Muller, its brutal methods of torture, and how the Gestapo dealt with internal security.

Product Description: Rupert Butler is the foremost chronicler of the horrifying story of Hitler's plans to extinguish the nations of Europe. He reveals, in chilling detail, the plans for the wholesale killings and subjection of Eastern Europe, including the 'Final Solution' of the gas chambers...read more

This is a detailed history of Heinrich Himmler's evil organization, whose 20,000 members were responsible for the internal security of the Reich. Based upon the Gestapo's own archives and eye-witness accounts, the author charts the development of the organization, its key figures, such as Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Muller, its brutal methods, and how the Gestapo dealt with internal security, including the various unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler.

Product Description: SS Hitlerjugend is an in-depth examination of the unit formed in 1943 from members of the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) organization. The majority of the division's recruits were 17 year olds who were fanatically devoted to the Nazi cause and the Fuhrer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Traces the development of the Gestapo, looks at its leaders, discusses Hitler's use of the secret police organization, and includes interviews with those who survived Gestapo interrogations

Product Description: The Black Angels: A History of the Waffen-SS