THE ROAD OF SLAUGHTER: The Latvian 15th SS Division in Pomerania, January-March 1945

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In Arctic blizzards between January and March 1945, the Latvian 15th SS Division - a core of Russian Front veterans but most were raw teenage conscripts from Nazi-occupied Latvia - tried to stop the Red Army sweeping across Pomerania, now Poland. From Danzig to the Oder, this is the story of an exhausting seven-week retreat using interviews the last remaining Latvian Legionnaires and Latvian archives that include translated personal diaries and extracts from the 15th Division war diary. Contains 118 black and white photos and 26 maps.