Table of Contents

Introduction
Eastern Front, 1942-43
From Legion to Brigade
Return to the Eastern Front, 1944
Narva
Kurland
Select Bibliography
Plate Commentaries
Index

Promotional Information

This illustrated title details the campaign history, uniforms and insignia of a major foreign volunteer formation of the Waffen-SS before its final transformation into a full division in the winter of 1944.

About the Author

Massimiliano Afiero specializes in the history of Axis units during the Second World War and particularly in the Waffen-SS. He is one of the few Italian historical researchers to have personally interviewed many veterans of the Waffen-SS and he has published numerous books dealing with foreign volunteers in the German armed forces during World War II. Since May 2008 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the bimonthly magazine SGM (Seconda Guerra Mondiale) published by Editoriale Lupo, and began publication of Ritterkreuz, The European Volunteer (L'Assalto Edizioni), and The Axis Forces in World War Two.

Ramiro Bujeiro has become a frequent and popular contributor to Osprey since illustrating Warrior 23: US Marine in Vietnam (1998). He is an experienced commercial artist who lives and works in his native city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His professional background includes commissions as a figure illustrator and strip cartoonist for clients all over Europe and the Americas, including many years' work for IPC Magazines in Great Britain. His main interests are the political and military history of Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

Reviews

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