Order of Battle: Hitlers Werewolves [Hardcover]

Ib Melchior (Author)

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Publication Date: October 1991

This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. text for author bio box: please use author bio from author info page text for book description box: This book details the ferreting out and destruction of the vaunted Nazi Werewolf terrorist organization on the eve of the attempted assassination of General Eisenhower and is based on the author's own experiences as a Counter Intelligence Agent in World War II. It has been published in 15 countries. "Impact. . . Harrowing descriptionsvivid portraits."The Los Angeles Times "The novel's suspense stretches to maximum tension."The New York Times

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Danish-born Ib Melchior is an author and award-winning movie and TV writer/director, with 12 feature films and numerous documentaries to his credit. Melchior served in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps during World War II, for which he won recognition from three countries. Ten of his worksall of them best-sellers, and together published in 25 countriesare based on his personal exploits. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 314 pages
• Publisher: Presidio Pr; 2nd Edition edition (October 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891414304
• ISBN-13: 978-0891414308
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,544,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars The destruction of Hitler's terrorist organization., October 22, 2000

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This review is from: Order of Battle: Hitler's Werewolves (Paperback)

As the Reich began to disintigrate in the autumn of 1944, Himmler set up the Werewolves to spread terror and destruction behind allied lines. They are not known to have achieved much, although they did assassinate the mayor of Aachen (who surrendered to the Americans), decapitate some GIs with tripwires and pour sugar into some Russian petrol tanks. Danish born author Ib Melchior served in US army counterintelligence during world war two, and has adopted a fictional approach to telling the Werewolf story. He says, however, it is based on fact. The most sensational claim is that there was a nazi plot to asassinate Eisenhower. The book is a well paced read from both the US and the German perspective. However, given that the events are in April 1945, there is remarkably little atmosphere of Gotterdammerung. And there are some historical mistakes. His claim that the SS were gassing and burning Jews at Dachau(!)at this late stage of the war is certainly mythical. The book was originally published in 1972, but the new 2000 edition has a more recent prologue. The epilogue contains a translated account of original Werewolf inspired documents. The organization may have failed - Germany was already in chaos - but the intentions were deadly serious.