first edition Trade Paperback
2019 · New Haven
by Siemens, Daniel
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x1x9. 1st printing. An exceptional copy. 2019 Trade Paperback. 504 pp. Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s. Known also as the SA or Brownshirts, these "ordinary" men waged a loosely structured campaign of intimidation and savagery across the nation from the 1920s to the "Night of the Long Knives" in 1934, when Chief of Staff Ernst Rohm and many other SA leaders were assassinated on Hitler's orders. (Inventory #: 2336743)