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Otto Skorzeny
- The Devil?s Disciple
Engelsk Hardback
Otto Skorzeny
- The Devil?s Disciple
Engelsk Hardback

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This first book to reassess the myth and the realities of Otto Skorzeny, Hitler''s favourite commando.

SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny became a legend in his own time. ‘Hitler’s favourite commando’ acquired a reputation as a man of daring, renowned for his audacious 1943 mission to extricate Mussolini from a mountain-top prison.

Skorzeny’s influence on special operations doctrine was far-reaching and long-lasting – in 2011, when US Navy SEALs infiltrated Pakistan to eliminate Osama Bin Laden, the operational planning was influenced by Skorzeny’s legacy. Yet he was also an egoist who stole other men’s credit (including for the seminal rescue of Mussolini), brave and resourceful but also an unrepentant Nazi and a self-aggrandizing hogger of the limelight.

Stuart Smith draws on years of in-depth research to uncover the truth about Skorzeny’s career and complex personality. From his background as a student radical in Vienna, to his bloody service with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front, his surprise rebirth as a commando, and his intriguing post-war career and mysterious fortune, this book tells Otto Skorzeny’s story in full – warts and all – for the first time.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
384
ISBN-13:
9781472829450
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
147282945X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
20 sep 2018
Længde:
36mm
Bredde:
241mm
Højde:
164mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
20 sep 2018
Forfatter(e):
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