{"product_id":"9780939484768","title":"The Eastern Front","description":"A gripping first-person memoir of soldierly sacrifice, heroism and fierce combat against numerically superior Soviet forces during World War II, by a charismatic Belgian writer and politician turned Waffen SS front-line infantryman.\u003cp\u003eIn a laudatory review appearing in an official US Army Department magazine, US Army Brigadier General John C. Bahnsen wrote: \"The pace of the writing is fast; the action is graphic, and a warrior can learn things from reading this book. I recommend its reading by students of the art of war. It is well worth the price.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the epic story of the Walloon Legion, a volunteer Belgian unit of the World War II pan-European SS force, as told by the legendary figure whose unmatched frontline combat experience and literary talent made him the premier spokesman for his fallen comrades. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptures the grit, the terror and the glory of Europe's crusade against Communism in absorbing prose. Includes fascinating first-person descriptions of Hitler, Himmler and other Third Reich personalities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDegrelle vividly describes how he and his comrades endured danger, privation and torrents of shot and shell -- on the sun-baked steppes of Ukraine, at the foothills of the Caucasus, in the depths of bone-chilling winter, through the stinking mud and the flaming hell of Cherkassy, and across the rolling plains of Estonia and the Pomeranian lake country. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou'll learn what moved the 35-year-old Degrelle -- a brilliant intellectual and his country's most colorful political leader -- to enlist as a private in the volun¬teer legion he himself organized to join with Third Reich Germany and its allies in their titanic fight against the Bolshevik enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Legion for the Survival of Freedom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48129758953712,"sku":"9780939484768","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780939484768_p0.jpg?v=1763870939","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780939484768","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}