Galicia Division

By Michael O. Logusz

Book Overview

This new book is a historical account of the 14th Waffen-SS Galicia Division (also known as the 1st Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army). In 1943/1944 a determined group of young men and women in Galicia volunteered to serve in a combat division destined for eastern front combat. Their goal: to engage and destroy the Soviet hordes menacing their homeland and to counter Nazi Germany's subjugation of their country. Although initially Galicia's Volunteers would serve in a German sponsored military formation, in actuality the volunteers of the Galicia division wanted to engage all hostile ideologies-both from the east and west-in order to secure a free independent Ukraine. The division's history is presented along with a human aspect of what the soldiers endured during the brutal battles on the eastern front.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764300814
• ISBN13: 9780764300813
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"