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Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9780921991465
ISBN number: 0921991460
Label: Fedorowicz (J.J.),Canada
Manufacturer: Fedorowicz (J.J.),Canada
Page Count: 670
Printing Date: 1999-11
Publishing house: Fedorowicz (J.J.),Canada
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Great book on one of the most famous panzer commanders in history. Gives detailed insight on events from the "other" side e.g. the infamous incident in Malmedy. Judge for yourself. Good historical value. Also very usefull for modeler's purposes (e.g. dioramas)
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Complete biography but also a tribute to one of the well known Waffen SS commanders. Sometimes it's hard to read "through" this devotion by Agte.
In the previous reviews Peiper is glorified or put on the same bench as all the other SS soldiers and officers.
In my opinion, if you can read through the lines, this book gives lots and lots of info regarding the "german" mind in the years before and during ww2 not even to speak of a wealth of information regarding tactics and strategy of Waffen SS units, in this case Leibstandarte and other units.
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If you are even remotely interested in the career of Jochen Peiper or the history of the Waffen SS panzer corps, this book is invaluable. It's big, it's heavy, it's a bit expensive, but the photos it contains are superb, the text is very well done, and the post-war photos are nice as well. No other book on Peiper compares with this volume, it is the standard by which other Third Reich bios will be judged from here on out.
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What I can't understand is how the reviews can trivialize the actions of the dishonorable in a desire to glorify his military abilities. Imagine you are one of Peiper's soldiers facing ultimately incensed and crazed Americans that your leader had fully convinced to never surrender by his cowardly tactics of shooting unarmed soldiers in the back of the head. This is toxic to the whole army, who assumably does not want to be the shame of shame for all time in military history as being the heartless and cowardly killers of POWs. Had I have been one of the soldiers ordered to shoot them in the back of the head, I can say in all honestly, I have turned and ended this monster's life without reservation, without concern for my life. Shoot me afterwards, I don't give as long as I managed to end the life of such a breech of humanity. Right is right, but the German soldiers were so cowardly they would follow this kind of an order. Such men, and their leaders, the world and history itself, should remember no more. They are not worthy of remembrance, much less praise. Those who praise him should inherit his shame.
Perhaps no officer brought more shame and disgrace on the German soldier than this manless coward that committed such cowardly atrocities. After Malmandy, Americans refused to surrender which meant many Germans unrealted to the cowards of 1st SS died as these impassioned and indignant Americans killed everything until they were finally killed, which made them much more deadly for his men to confront. If you want eye witnesses to this sub-human's attrocities go read "Lindy Fancher's WWII Through These Eyes". He watched this coward of cowards lining them up from a ridge above them. It shows you how the fighting spirit of the American soldier overwhelmed this unstoppable juggernaut that the Germans had against the weak spot in the line. They should have had a cake walk to Antwerp. Anyone who thinks the German soldiers were better fighters, really need to get out of the German self acclaim books and read a few reports from the front line of the group who won against the odds.
If it were not for US Gen Dwight D Eisen"coward" and the desire for political maneuvering, Peiper would have been hanged as he was ordered and scheduled to be by a Dachau judge along with 42 other of his fellow group of cowards.
In addition, many American soldiers would now also have be killed (instead of surrender) so this extreme coward needlessly killed so many additional men that it threatens to take away from the shame of a concentration camps.
Peiper was simply another Himmler, a wimp with authority and zero guts, that betrayed his country, his soldiers and violated every sense of decency and honor, that accompanies the ability to be considered a legitimate military tactician. No SS officers were to be taken alive, the took a vow against it, except for those that are extreme cowards, which we have already established that Peiper was but what is a vow of honor to a man with none?
The bottom line is that cowardice is NOT overcome by facing enemies with weaker forces and less capable armour so that people can glorify your easy work of killing Shermans with Tigers. He certainly never showed a single skill in the Battle of the Bulge nor the slaughter that followed from allied aircraft mocking him and all he stood for by turning his tank groups into a shooting gallery, his men into coffin drivers.
If the skies had been clear in mid Dec 44, you would have never heard of Jochen Peiper unless you were reading a German causualty list. Air domination made the best of the best tanks and their commanders and leaders laughable. In the West, the tank was a coffin to be burned alive in (go read Gen Bayerlein's books - Panzer Lehr, he is very unambiguous on how obsolete tanks were in the West with Allied Air Power), especially when led by coward leaders too stupid to realize the era of war he was in.
There are much better German generals to study. Peiper shames the others that should not have been shamed. It is not fair to them.
For those that commented on how the "controversy" of Malmandy will ultimately come up by others, to cloud this great man, there was nothing significant in history about this man than his shameful feats at Malmandy. Without them, who would know him? He would be just one more Nazi that was annihilated at a battle where they were overwelmed by a much better military force and far better fighters as the American soldier. The rest is just trying to oversell the man and oversell the effect of the massive German army against the Allies who relied on Air to humilitate the German Armour groups and who never had to retreat against a "supposedly" unstoppable great German army (go figure).
He was like one of these battleship captains that were not bright enough in WWII to realize they were obsoleted by Air Power (carriers) ... Read More
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I purchased this book having heard of the reputation Jochen Pieper and the reputation of other books available him were not good, expensive but very indepth including his childhood, prewar, his brothers suicide, his other brother commited to an asylum, combat on both eastern and western fronts, after war trial, his years in France and finally his murder by French Communists.
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