Devil's Guard

Members of the Waffen SS join the French Foreign Legion fighting in Vietnam. With no country to return to how will they survive? This book forces the reader to as some hard questions: at what point does it become the responsibility of a country to 'identify' who is fighting in furtherance of their i......more

This is a classic that is hard to find, but passed around Marine Infantry Platoons for all grunts to read. It is a fascinating tale of Germany SS troops who evaded capture after the end of WWII from the Eastern front with Russia. They escaped to Switzerland where they joined the French Foreign Legio......more

I've read this several times since my early teens and each time I read it I like it less. The basic premise of this novel is that it's not actually a novel, but based on the experiences of a real person and the author simply spiffed it up. It's about Nazis, mainly Waffen SS, who escape from Germany......more

Like "Starship Troopers", I read this very differently when I was a young soldier than I do now. As a soldier, I was intrigued by how the German Legionnaires did things (notwithstanding their, shall we say, looseness with the laws of war). Now, when I re-read it, I like how it shows the "feel" of sold......more

Little known story of ex-German soldiers in Vietnam......more