On the devil's tail : in combat with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1945, and With the French in Indochina 1951-54 / Paul Martelli with Vittorio dal Cengio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martelli, Paul, author.

Dal Cengio, Vittorio, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Waffen-SS. SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Götz von Berlichingen", 17.

Waffen-SS.

France. Armée. Légion étrangère.

France.

SS-Ausbildungslager Sennheim.

Kolberg-Körlin (Germany)--History, Military.

Kolberg-Körlin (Germany).

Martelli, Paul, 1929-.

Martelli, Paul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

West Midlands, [England] : Helion & Company, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the riveting true story of Paul Martelli, a fifteen-year-old German-Italian, who fought in Pomerania, on the Eastern Front, in 1945 as a member of the 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS ""Charlemagne"" and, later, as a soldier with French forces during three years (1951-1954) in the Tonkin area, Vietnam. Paul recounts his time at the Sennheim military training base, where he was introduced to the rigorous discipline of body and mind: he then goes back to 1940, during the German invasion of France, when he was still a boy in Lorraine, hinting at his motivations for enlisting with the

Contents:

List of Photographs; List of Maps; Introductory Notes; Glossary; 1. The Waffen SS Volunteer; 2. The Greifenberg Base; 3. The Battle of Körlin; 4. The Siege of Kolberg; 5. Escape to the West; 6. Trials and Tribulations; 7. Vietnam

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781910777527

1910777528