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Cover: 9781472829450 | Otto Skorzeny | The Devil's Disciple | Stuart Smith | Buch | Gebunden

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Stuart Smith

Zusammenfassung

Charts Skorzeny's charmed post-war life: how he accrued a mysterious fortune while leading the world's intelligence agencies on a merry dance. He was acquitted of the war crimes charges he was accused of, but the ones he might have answered for, he never did.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Maps

1. The Knowledge of Pain
2. Accidental Soldier
3. Thugs in Field Grey
4. The Liberator of Mussolini
5. Special Ops and High-Value Targets
6. Miracle Weapons
7. The Stauffenberg Plot - July 1944
8. The Scherhorn Affair
9. The SS Changes Tack
10. Operation Panzerfaust: Budapest, October 1944
11. Everything on One Card: Operation Greif
12. Operation Greif: Mission and Aftermath
13. Implosion: The Schwedt Bridgehead
14. Skorzeny's Last Stand
15. Trial and Errors
16. Escape from Darmstadt
17. Apocalypse Soon: Preparing for World War III
18. Neo-Nazis and Colonel Nasser: Skorzeny's Wilderness Years
19. The Years of Plenty
20. Ghosts of the Past: Skorzeny's Last Years
Epilogue: Man and Myth

Glossary
Note on the Waffen-SS
Bibliography
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	384
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781472829450
ISBN-10:	147282945X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Smith, Stuart
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	241 x 161 x 40 mm
Von/Mit:	Stuart Smith
Erscheinungsdatum:	20.09.2018
Gewicht:	0,731 kg

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