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KlappentextThis 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.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-4728-2945-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
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Erscheinungsjahr2018
Erscheinungsdatum20.09.2018
Seiten384 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht731 g
Artikel-Nr.46311606
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GenreRomane Hardcover