Stuart Smith is a business journalist. He was a Major Open Scholar in Modern History at Wadham College, Oxford, 1973–76 and completed an MA in International Relations at Sussex University, 1978–9. For 20 years, until 2008, Stuart was editor of Marketing Week, a high-circulation business magazine. He lives in the UK.

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• AcknowledgmentsPrologueMaps1. The Knowledge of Pain2. Accidental Soldier3. Thugs in Field Grey4. The Liberator of Mussolini5. Special Ops and High-Value Targets6. Miracle Weapons7. The Stauffenberg Plot – July 19448. The Scherhorn Affair9. The SS Changes Tack10. Operation Panzerfaust: Budapest, October 194411. Everything on One Card: Operation Greif12. Operation Greif: Mission and Aftermath13. Implosion: The Schwedt Bridgehead14. Skorzeny’s Last Stand15. Trial and Errors16. Escape from Darmstadt17. Apocalypse Soon: Preparing for World War III18. Neo-Nazis and Colonel Nasser: Skorzeny’s Wilderness Years19. The Years of Plenty20. Ghosts of the Past: Skorzeny’s Last YearsEpilogue: Man and MythGlossary Note on the Waffen-SSBibliographyNotesIndex

Stuart Smith is a business journalist. He was a Major Open Scholar in Modern History at Wadham College, Oxford, 1973–76 and completed an MA in International Relations at Sussex University, 1978–9. For 20 years, until 2008, Stuart was editor of Marketing Week, a high-circulation business magazine. He lives in the UK.

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• AcknowledgmentsPrologueMaps1. The Knowledge of Pain2. Accidental Soldier3. Thugs in Field Grey4. The Liberator of Mussolini5. Special Ops and High-Value Targets6. Miracle Weapons7. The Stauffenberg Plot – July 19448. The Scherhorn Affair9. The SS Changes Tack10. Operation Panzerfaust: Budapest, October 194411. Everything on One Card: Operation Greif12. Operation Greif: Mission and Aftermath13. Implosion: The Schwedt Bridgehead14. Skorzeny’s Last Stand15. Trial and Errors16. Escape from Darmstadt17. Apocalypse Soon: Preparing for World War III18. Neo-Nazis and Colonel Nasser: Skorzeny’s Wilderness Years19. The Years of Plenty20. Ghosts of the Past: Skorzeny’s Last YearsEpilogue: Man and MythGlossary Note on the Waffen-SSBibliographyNotesIndex

Stuart Smith is a business journalist. He was a Major Open Scholar in Modern History at Wadham College, Oxford, 1973–76 and completed an MA in International Relations at Sussex University, 1978–9. For 20 years, until 2008, Stuart was editor of Marketing Week, a high-circulation business magazine. He lives in the UK.

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• AcknowledgmentsPrologueMaps1. The Knowledge of Pain2. Accidental Soldier3. Thugs in Field Grey4. The Liberator of Mussolini5. Special Ops and High-Value Targets6. Miracle Weapons7. The Stauffenberg Plot – July 19448. The Scherhorn Affair9. The SS Changes Tack10. Operation Panzerfaust: Budapest, October 194411. Everything on One Card: Operation Greif12. Operation Greif: Mission and Aftermath13. Implosion: The Schwedt Bridgehead14. Skorzeny’s Last Stand15. Trial and Errors16. Escape from Darmstadt17. Apocalypse Soon: Preparing for World War III18. Neo-Nazis and Colonel Nasser: Skorzeny’s Wilderness Years19. The Years of Plenty20. Ghosts of the Past: Skorzeny’s Last YearsEpilogue: Man and MythGlossary Note on the Waffen-SSBibliographyNotesIndex