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(More customer reviews)This is it ! If you're looking for a good album book, presenting mountain units of 3rd Reich - look no further ! A must-have in every GJ affictionado collection. From initial pre-war training photos, through icy Norwegian fiords, Cassino hot slopes and Waffen SS mountain anti-partisan actions up to the last fights in the Alps. Kaltenegger is a well-known master of the subject and here his mastery is confirmed !
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Under the emblem of the Edelweis, the soldiers of the German mountain corps fought on every front in the Second World War in the tundra of Lapland, in the gorges of the Balkans, on Crete, in the High Caucasus, at Monte Cassino and finally in Upper Italy and the Western Alps, at the Semmering, in Bavaria and Tyrol. Mountain troops even formed part of Rommels famed Afrikakorps. During the war, the army alone formed a total of eleven mountain divisions, plus independent battalions and units. The accomplishments of the Men of the Edelweis are still held in high regard by historians and military experts. Armed forces and special units worldwide use their alpine and combat abilities as an example, for in mountain fighting the weather and the terrain often caused more casualties than the enemy. Through impressive photographs and brief, insightful text, this chronicle offers the reader and extraordinary view into the world of these elite troops, who were always committed where the outcome hung in the balance.
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