Galicia Division: The Waffen-SS 14th grenadier Division 1943-1945

by Michael O. Logusz

Overview

This new book is a historical account of the 14th Waffen-SS Galicia Division (also known as the 1st Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army). In 1943/1944 a determined group of young men and women in Galicia volunteered to serve in a combat division destined for eastern front combat. Their goal: to engage and destroy the Soviet hordes menacing their homeland and to counter Nazi Germany's subjugation of their country. Although initially Galicia's Volunteers would serve in a German sponsored military formation, in actuality the volunteers of the Galicia division wanted to engage all hostile ideologies-both from the east and west-in order to secure a free independent Ukraine. The division's history is presented along with a human aspect of what the soldiers endured during the brutal battles on the eastern front.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780764300813
Publisher:	Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date:	07/22/1997
Series:	Schiffer Military History Ser.
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)