Loyalty Is My Honor [Hardcover]

Gordon Williamson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Motorbooks Intl (July 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0760300127
• ISBN-13: 978-0760300121
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In The Long Run We Will Know The Truth, July 10, 2004

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Peter H. Kistemaker (Helmond, Noord Brabant Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Loyalty Is My Honor (Hardcover)

As A son from a former radioman in a Panthertank from the 5th Wiking Panzerdivison Waffen-SS I was informed by my father about the discrepancies in the stories about WW2 and more specific about the Waffen SS. He served in Russia from 1941 until his surrender to the Americans in Austria and his biography that he left me tells the same story as all the other soldiers in this book. One of them, Jan Munk, beeing a friend of my father untill my father died in 2003.
For me it was enlightning to read these stories and place them in the same context as the story of my father. I grew up, torn apart between the history lessons on school and the stories of my dad. Everything looked so black and white in the opinion of most people and if you look deeper you will see that the world is not black and white but mostly gray. Black and white are on the far ends of a large field of gray. More and more people discover the truth about the Waffen SS, for instance the website www.waffen-ss.nl where you can find facts and figures of this legendary army part and where I found the title of this book under the subject Bad Tölz.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, May 20, 1999

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This review is from: Loyalty Is My Honor (Hardcover)

This book is one of the best books I have ever read on the Waffen-SS. The personal accounts give you a feel for what it was like to be a German soldier in WWII. It gives them a chance to express their experiences in their words and to tell their side of the story. It has that personal touch that so many historical books out there lack. I find the stories to be entertaining and provocative. Written in a chronological format with background information and personal photographs. If this is your area of interest then I would highly recommend you to read this book.

57 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Realities and Myths finally exposed, November 3, 1999

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Raquel Palacios (Connecticut, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Loyalty Is My Honor (Hardcover)

Finally in this country, one can read an un-biased book which presents the reality of the Waffen SS without having to read the words "evil" and "infamous" in every other sentence. Myths and facts are distorted by clueless writers and historians of the winning side. Mixing the holocaust and the german soldiers in the front has been the greatest after war propaganda campaign. I recommend this book to anyone that wants to know how Waffen SS fought in the front, how they interacted with prisioners of war,how they felt about each other, ..etc. Want to live in absolute brainwashed ignorance? Keep watching the History channel and their biased WII programs...