Hitler's Home Guard: Volkssturmmann: Western Front, 1944-45

by David Yelton

Osprey's study of Germany's Home Guard during the latter part of World War II (1939-1945). The creation of the German Home Guard or Volkssturm on 18 October 1944 was a desperate measure by the Nazi regime to utilize every available manpower resource in their last-ditch attempts to delay their inevitable defeat. All able-bodied males between the ages of 16 and 60 who were not already members of the German Armed Forces were conscripted into one organization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846030137
• ISBN13: 9781846030130
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.3" x 9.8"