Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.54219348
EAN num: 9781862271562
ISBN number: 1862271569
Label: Spellmount Publishing houses
Manufacturer: Spellmount Publishing houses
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: 2004-01
Publishing house: Spellmount Publishing houses
Sale Popularity Level: 598005
Studio: Spellmount Publishing houses
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Now in paperback, this authoritative account and assessment of the military career, Dachau war crime trial and murder of Jochen Peiper, Heinrich Himmler's Adjutant and the 'Siegfried' of the Waffen SS, describes his involvement in the Ardennes offensive and Malme'dy Massacre
- Illustrated with rare photographs, high quality maps and figures.
- Peiper's rise through the ranks of the Fuhrer's Bodyguard Regiment, Die Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.
- Peiper's service with Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS.
- His fighting record on the Eastern Front and in France.
- The very first thoroughly objective account of his role as the Commander of the Kampfgruppe Peiper in the 1944 Ardennes offensive, which brought him to particular wartime prominence.
- The facts about 'The Malme'dy Massacre' on 17 December 1944, when 84 Americans died at the hands of Peiper's men.
- The Dachau Trial which led Peiper to the condemned cell in Landsberg prison.
- His postwar life as a paroled War Criminal.
- Peiper's death during a fire-bomb attack on his home in France in 1976.
Major General Mike Reynolds is a respected historian and writer. His other books are Eagles and Bulldogs (Casemate 2003), Steel Inferno and Men of Steel.?
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What is the point of reading something like this?There is very very little about Jochen Peiper life,book should be caled"Battle of the Bulge"
DO NOT believe everything that is writen there, ESPECIALLY by UK writers or directors. Remember, the winners write the history.
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Despite this books ambiguous title, it is a very detailed account of Panzer Leader Jochen Peiper's actions of Germany's last major offensive against the Allies at the Battle of the Bulge. Jochen Peiper served under Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, for several years prior to getting a field command. Peiper led the 1st Panzer Division at the Bulge. This book is chocked full of detail written very dryly and attempts to humanize Peiper or justify his actions to some degree. I found this book only of interest because of the great detail contained concerning the actions of the elitist group of Nazi military of the SS division Peiper commanded. For instance: What was the mentality and reasoning for murdering captured US military personnel at Malmedy? I was really not interested in his conviction at the war crimes trials. Basically he was not a good man in my opinion. Because of the book's highly detailed account of military events during the Battle of the Bulge I would recommend this book.
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One the one hand, Reynolds has done impressive research - if you want to know exactly where 1 Company of the 117th Infantry was at 1432 on 21 December, then congratulations - you have found your book. The author has spent a lot of time working out who was doing what, where, and when.
On the other, he fails to bring any of the characters to life and has - unlike other military historians like Hastings or Beevor - no real facility in describing what happens on the battlefield. There is little extrapolation on the weapons and tactics used, and no feeling for the tension, fear and excitement of action.
Finally, although one might expect, from the title, that the author would concentrate on the German experience, most of his sources - interviews and written - are American. As someone who has guided German veterans around the battlefield, it is odd that he did not include more remininscences from the Germans.
To sum up: Reynolds has done a good job researching the minutae of the various units' positions and timings, but does a poor job of writing about battle, and the reader will often lose sight of the woods due to the mass of trees.
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I bought the book believing it tobe a complete account of Jochen Piper's military career. Even though the details about the Ardennes campaign and the drive to the Meuse are impressive the book says few about Piper's career in Russia. I wanted to know how the Blowtorch Battaillon in Piper's command won its fearful reputation in Russia, about his aggresive tactics with half tracks and his innovative style of commnad that has been praised in numerous accounts. About this I didn't learn something new in this account but it is a very good book about the KG Piper's actions during the Battle of the Bulge. The tittle of the book is a little bit misleading as it does not center in Piper's career or biography and is more a historic account of the Battle of the Bulge. I gave it 3 stars for that, if some chapters were dedicated to Piper's previous career in Russia which accounts for most of his exploits and fame I would have improved my rating.
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For those that want a basic view of Peiper and his role in the Ardennes Offensive, this is very good. The author is unbiased and has both American and German accounts of the battle from beginning to end. Those that want a thorough and indept account of Peiper, Patrick Agte's book is what you want. The Bulge is the final and greatest offensive in the war against the western allies and unlike the war in the east where Peiper participated in, it was the Battle of the Bulge, particularly the Malmady incident that effected Peiper on a more personal level condemning him as a war criminal and to be hanged. Peiper being branded as a war criminal probably what led to his murder by French Communists. But Peiper did nothing unusual that other sides didn't do. The shooting of prisoners was common, particularly on the eastern front, but on the western front Americans also shot German prisoners as well. Aside from the fact that he was a committed Nazi, in all fairness Peiper like all great and aggressive military leaders did what he had to do in order to win a desperate battle.
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