SS Intelligence: The Nazi Secret Service

by Edmund L. Blandford

This book examines the Natioanal Socialist German SS Security Service - the Sicherheitsdienst - from its earliest beginnings and struggle against underfunding and rival organizations, to its triumph as one of the most professional and dangerous espionage services in the world.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, World War II, Essays, Espionage, Military Fiction

270 pages, Hardcover

First published August 27, 2000

Reviews

[Lewis Weinstein · Rating 1 out of 5]

Blanford is not a historian. The book has no notes and no index. Statements are made but not supported. Questionable reliability. Not recommended.

[Brett C · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is was decent overview on the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) the internal security service of the SS. The author mentions the Gestapo, the Night of The Long Knives, Operation North Pole, and some other things. Major key players are discussed like Reinhard Heydrich, Kurt Daluege, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Adolf Eichmann, and Karl Frank. Overall not a terrible book and introduction to the SD of Nazi Germany.

[Blixen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Le fonti storiche da cui attinge hanno lo stessa natura di quelle del romanzo "Il Codice da Vinci", ma è avvincente. Se state effettuando una ricerca, come mi sta capitando in questi giorni, vi consiglio Mimmo Franzinelli.

[Courtney · Rating 1 out of 5]

I hesitate to call this book a history. The author is apparently not a trained historian. This in and of itself wouldn't be a deal breaker. But he seems to lack a general sense of how to piece a history together. The narrative is broken and disjoint with jumping back and forth between time periods.

The entire promised point of the book - battling Nazi spy chiefs - is totally lost in a confusion of names and irrelevant details. SPOILER: Eventually both men die in different ways at different times. But there is almost no sense of the competition between them other than, "Both organizations tried to do roughly the same thing."

[Michelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

Facts were interesting but not a very well written book. As a fan of Nazi history, I would have expected more out of this book. A certain level of previous knowledge was assumed of the reader with many acronyms and group names being used without ever explaining them. This book could have been much better organized. It read like a book of facts, even the individual chapters having little coherency.

[Trish · Rating 3 out of 5]

LArgely deals with the intelligence, counterintelligence and policing roles of the SS rather than the organisation as a whole

[Gregory · Rating 1 out of 5]

Terrible book. No flow, not sure if it is real.

[Francesco · Rating 5 out of 5]

la storia della seconda guerra mondiale