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Otto Skorzeny
The Devil’s Disciple
Author: Stuart Smith
Narrator: Julian Elfer
Unabridged: 13 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Published: 09/18/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Military Nonfiction, History, Wars, World War II, Military History
Synopsis
SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Otto Skorzeny became a legend in his own time. "Hitler's favorite commando" acquired a reputation as a man of daring, renowned for his audacious 1943 mission to extricate Mussolini from a mountain-top prison. He could be brave and resourceful, but was also a notorious egoist and an unrepentant Nazi until the end of his life.
Stuart Smith draws on years of in-depth research to uncover the truth about Skorzeny's career and complex personality. From his background as a student radical in Vienna to his bloody service with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front, his surprise rebirth as a commando, and his intriguing post-war career and mysterious fortune, this book tells Otto Skorzeny's story in full—warts and all—for the first time.