Army Evil
A History of the SS

The author takes a long look at the development of the SS, step by step he walks through the growth and the changes that came over this organization. Interestingly enough he mostly considers it a failure top to bottom. In the end it would appear, at least to outsiders, that Himmler had a massive Emp......more

This was a powerhouse of a book. I was not expecting it to be as good as it was. "Army of Evil" is a no-frills, matter-of-fact, somewhat chronological telling of the rise of the German SS (Schutzstaffel) under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler. The book also covers many of the other related events o......more

Imagine yourself- living in a world where your conflicting political, religious, or racial, non mainstream views with the current political system can lead you to a life in prison, or quite possibly death! This was a very extensive look into the very disturbing, terrifying, events of human history fr......more

A fabulous look at the SS. As Mr. Weale says, the SS wasn't the group of terror that many histories have painted them out to be, but a more secondary army for many middle to working class Germans to join without the actual rigors of the Wehrmacht. Now, this doesn't excuse what they did, because that......more

Brilliant but depressing, inevitable given the subject matter. The heroic image of the cover is completely undermined by the reality revealed in the research. Not some elite fighting force but a squalid agency of "race war". Essential reading.......more