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The classic account of German World War II commando operations, with new material on a possible wartime Churchill-Mussolini correspondence, alleged involvement of the British in Mussolinis death, and Skorzenys post-war association with Nasser and Evita Peron.
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Skorzeny : The Most Dangerous Man in Europe Battle Book
author
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Whiting, Charles.
publisher
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Combined Publishing
isbn10 | asin
:
0938289942
print isbn13
:
9780938289944
ebook isbn13
:
9780585193946
language
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English
subject
Skorzeny, Otto.
publication date
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1998
lcc
:
DD247.S54W45 1998eb
ddc
:
940.54/87/0924
subject
:
Skorzeny, Otto.
Page i
Skorzeny
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By the same author:
Bloody Aachen
Forty-Eight Hours to Hammelburg
Massacre at Malmdy
The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket
Hitler's Werewolves
The Hunt for Martin Bormann
The End of the War
The War in the Shadows
Hunters from the Sky
Operation Stalag
A Bridge at Arnhem
The Battle of Hurtgen Forest
Decision at St Vith
The March on London
The Battle for Twelveland
Operation Northbound
Operation Africa
Bounce the Rhine
The Three-Star Blitz
Siegfried: The Nazis' Last Stand
The Last Assault
Death on a Distant Frontier
Page iii
Skorzeny
'The Most Dangerous Man in Europe'
by Charles Whiting
COMBINED PUBLISHING Pennsylvania
Page iv
Disclaimer: Some images in the original hard copy book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.
Charles Whiting, 1972, 1998 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher. Revised and expanded edition, 1998
This revised and expanded edition first published in the United States of America in 1998 by Combined Publishing by arrangement with Pen & Sword Books Ltd., Barnsley, Great Britain.Image not available
For information, address: COMBINED PUBLISHING P.O. Box 307 Conshohocken, PA 19428
Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from the Library of Congress
Printed in Great Britain by: Redwood Books Ltd., Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
Page v
Contents
Author's Note
1
1. The Man
9
2. Early Days
19
3. Where Is Mussolini?
26
4. Attack on the Gran Sasso
35
5. Enter Doctor Wolf
43
6. Operation Greif
56
7. 'The Most Dangerous Man In Europe'
65
8. Battle on the Oder
77
9. The Last Round-Up
89
10. Escape or Die
99
11. Post-War Operations
109
12. The Churchill Ploy
121
13. Blackmail!
129
14. End Run
138
15. Assessment
140
Bibliography
145
Page 1
Author's Note
'There's been a sudden change of plan,' the little doctor with cropped blond hair whispered to me in his Southern German accent. A minute before, he had arrived unexpectedly at the bustling German provincial station, now crowded with early morning commuters, carrying their bulging briefcases, most filled with their 'second breakfast', the eleven o'clock snack that most German office workers eat. The day before he had arranged this journey for me I was to travel alone to the appointed rendezvous with the 'great man', as he called him. Now, surprisingly, he had turned up himself on this cold winter's morning and announced that he was going with me. Was it all part of some real-life cat-and-mouse game. After all the Herr Doktor, like others of his kind that I'd met in the Federal Republic, were working on the fringes of legality. Or was it just play-acting on his part? After all, this strange war-in-the-shadows, of which the 'Great Man' was a part, had been going on for well over a quarter of a century now, ever since Germany had lost the war.
As we got into a second class compartment of the express and headed north 'Might meet somebody in first class that we don't want to see' the doctor told me that there'd been a change of rendezvous as well. Instead of Hamburg, to which I had thought I was travelling an hour earlier, we were going to Harburg, a small town on the other side of the River Elbe from Hamburg. I understood, didn't I? The man I was anxious to interview was still wanted in the Federal Republic, and had been for a quarter of a century. The German authorities didn't want him in the
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