Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 7
Prologue 8
Maps 11
1 The Knowledge of Pain 18
2 Accidental Soldier 30
3 Thugs in Field Grey 41
4 The Liberator of Mussolini 57
5 Special Ops and High-Value Targets 82
6 Miracle Weapons 98
7 The Stauffenberg Plot - July 1944 109
8 The Scherhorn Affair 124
9 The SS Changes Tack 134
10 Operation Panzerfaust: Budapest, October 1944 149
11 Everything on One Card: Operation Greif 162
12 Operation Greif Mission and Aftermath 179
13 Implosion: The Schwedt Bridgehead 197
14 Skorzeny's Last Stand 220
15 Trial and Errors 236
16 Escape from Darmstadt 255
17 Apocalypse Soon: Preparing for World War III 261
18 Neo-Nazis and Colonel Nasser: Skorzeny's Wilderness Years 283
19 The Years of Plenty 295
20 Ghosts of the Past: Skorzeny's Last Years 305
Epilogue: Man and Myth 319
Glossary 326
Note on the Waffen-SS 329
Bibliography 331
Notes 340
Index 376