Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) at War, 1939–1945

From the Images of War series, a pictorial history of Nazi Germany's elite fighting force on World War II's Western and Eastern Fronts.

With extensive text and many unpublished photographs with in-depth captions, this book describes the Division's fighting tactics, weapons and uniforms. It traces how the Division became an elite fighting unit both in offensive and defensive battles.


The Division is shown as it battled its way through Poland, the Low Countries, the Balkans and then on the Eastern Front, where it fought tenaciously for Kharkov and in the 1943 battle of Kursk. In 1944, it was deployed to Normandy before the carnage of the Falaise Pocket. Soon after it was back in action during the bitter winter fighting in the Ardennes, before returning to the Eastern Front where it was shifted from one disintegrating part of the front to another.

The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) provides a captivating glimpse of the history and inner workings of one of the most effective fighting formations of the Second World War.