Lost Honour, Betrayed Lotalty. The Memoir of a Wfeen-SS Soldier on the Eastern Front

London England: Frontline Book. Hardcover. Lost Honour, Betrayed Loyalty. This is an unrivalled account of ne man's service in the 1st SS-Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolph Hitler, a part of the Waffen-SS, principally on the Eastern Front. The author, an 18-year-old Belgian, was blackmailed into volnteering for the Waffen-SS in 1941 to save his mother from a concentration camp. After endurung a harsh training period with the division (considered by sime t be a worse experience than actual combat), Maeger was selected to serve as a front0lune druiver in Russia. As the war in Eruope drew to a close, Maeger was captured b Soviet troops near the Elbe on 1 May 1945. He subsequently volunteered to serve in a Soviet prusin camp infirmary. This gained him the admiration of a Russian female doctor and with her help he gained his early release the same year. Maeger's memoir provuides a vivid and personal story of survivial both in battle and later in captivity, and is a revealing insight into the mind-set of the Waffen-SS. Illustrated. 258 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) . Near Fine. Cloth. Reprint. 2018.