This is a first-person account of a man who was in the German SS during World War II.
Before reading this book you need to read several of the negative reviews on Amazon. According to those reviews this book was not written by a member of the SS, but by a Frenchman using stories from other accounts. And those reviews say that author gets a lot of things wrong.
I haven't read it myself, but I always look at the Amazon reviews, as well as the PBS reviews, before requesting books by authors I am unfamiliar with. It's amazing how many "first person" memoirs out there are faked, and a number of personal memoirs which became best sellers were later found to contain outright lies.
I haven't read it myself, but I always look at the Amazon reviews, as well as the PBS reviews, before requesting books by authors I am unfamiliar with. It's amazing how many "first person" memoirs out there are faked, and a number of personal memoirs which became best sellers were later found to contain outright lies.
