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5th SS Division Wiking at War 1941-1945: History of the Division : Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives, Paperback / softback Book

5th SS Division Wiking at War 1941-1945: History of the Division : Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives Paperback / softback

Part of the Images of War series

Paperback / softback

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Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs the 5th SS Division Wiking 1941 - 1945 is the 5th book in the Waffen-SS Images of War Series by Ian Baxter.

The book tells the dramatic story of the 5th SS Panzer Divisioni?1/2Wiking at War. i?1/2The men of the division were recruited from foreign volunteers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the Netherlands and Belgium under the command of German officers.

Not all were collaborators - the choice they were all too often presented with was join up or be locked up - or worse.

During the course of the war, the division served on the Eastern Front in 1941.

It surrendered in May 1945 to the American forces in Austria.

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