SS-LIEBSTANDARTE The History of the First SS Division 1933-45

192 pages, 112 photographs

A detailed examination of the men, equipment, organization and combat record of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division - the Waffen-SS unit which grew out of Adolf Hitler's bodyguard.  Includes rare photographs of the division and its key figures from the unit's formation to its combat debut in Poland and subsequent service in Holland, France, Belgium, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.  The authoritative text is accompanied by specially-commissioned maps showing the campaigns and battles that the Leibstandarte were involved in such as Kursk, the Battle of the Bulge, Normandy, Cherkassy and many more.