Hitler's Special Forces

<h2>Blood fire and iron: An unforgettable portrait of the most feared soldiers of World War Two</h2> <p>In the closing years of the 1930s German agent-provocateurs worked in secrecy. These crack units of elite soldiers paved the way for the invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland the spark that would ignite a war across Europe. In time they would go on to shape the conflict with terrifying ferocity and skill.</p> <p>The mysteries of German special forces are revealed here with incisive analysis of naval military and aerial operations and vivid descriptions of suicide pilots human torpedoes and explosive motor boats.</p> <p>James Lucas delivers one of the fullest and most accessible ever accounts of the elite troops known as <em>Kommandos</em> across both their achievements and failures to stave off impending military defeat.</p> <p><strong>This is war at its toughest most harrowing and most extreme.</strong></p>