{"product_id":"ss-foreign-divisions-volunteers-of-lithuania-latvia-and-estonia-1941-1945-9781399012980","title":"SS Foreign Divisions \u0026 Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, 1941-1945","description":"Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs \u003ci\u003eSS Foreign Divisions \u0026amp; Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia 1942 - 1945\u003c\/i\u003e describes how the occupying Nazis recruited Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian conscripts into the Waffen-SS. Unlike her Latvian neighbor, Lithuania had no plans to provide Germany with a National Legion. Although volunteers came forward, the majority did not. This was not the case for Latvia and Estonia, which undertook huge recruitment programs, and thousands of men were drafted into their own foreign legion of Waffen-SS Grenadier divisions. After intensive training, these divisions saw action on the Eastern front, around Leningrad, in the Ukraine, before vicious defensive operations as the Red Army smashed its way through the Baltic States in 1944. Even in the last dying weeks of the war, what was left of the Baltic soldiers of the 15th, 19th and 20th Waffen-SS Grenadier Divisions, continued to fight alongside their Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS counterparts until they were either destroyed or surrendered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe story of these divisions is graphically told with detailed captions and text together with many contemporary images in true Images of War style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaxter, Ian:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Ian Baxter is an avid collector of WW2 photographs. His previous books in this Series include Hitler's Boy Soldiers, Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants and German Army on the Eastern Front - The Advance, German Army on the Eastern Front - The Retreat and Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants, The Crushing of Army Group (North) and the SS Waffen Division series including SS Leibstandarte Division and SS Totenkopf Division At War. He lives near Chelmsford, Essex.\"","brand":"Pen \u0026 Sword Military","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50383167258898,"sku":"9781399012980","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b1917a1c-05de-4b13-a567-0476d9241f06.jpg?v=1728780017","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ss-foreign-divisions-volunteers-of-lithuania-latvia-and-estonia-1941-1945-9781399012980","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}