Product Description: "Swastika over the Acropolis" is a new, multi-national account which provides a new and compelling interpretation of the Greek campaign of 1941, and its place in the history of World War II. It overturns many previously accepted English-language assumptions about the fighting in Greece in April 1941 including, for example, the impact usually ascribed to the Luftwaffe, German armour and the conduct of the Greek Army Further, "Swastika over the Acropolis" demonstrates that this last complete strategic victory by Nazi Germany in World War II is set against a British-Dominion campaign mounted as a withdrawal, not an attempt to save Greece from invasion and occupation...read more

Product Description: In the Nazi rise to power a key role was played by the Nazi storm troopers – the SA. This was a paramilitary organization designed for defense of Nazi Party meetings and attacks on its political opponents. It formed the workforce for Nazi political activity in the lead up to the takeover of power in 1933...read more

Product Description: This volume demonstrates that, contrary to widely held current opinion, Germany was organized for and committed to total war to an extent not usually recognized. Dr Hancock studies the concepts of total war, and the policies and attitudes of the National Socialist leadership to mobilizing the German economy and society for World War II...read more