Table of Contents

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Bibliographic Abbreviations; Part One: Origins and Implementation; 1. Security Warfare; 2. The New Order; 3. Hitler's Bandenbekampfung Directive; Part Two: Bandenbekampfung; 4. Bandenbekampfung Operational Concept; 5. Die Bandenkampfverbande; 6. Das Bandenkampfgebiet; 7. Die Bandenunternehmungen; Part Three: Climatic Decline; 8. Poland; 9. Western Europe; 10. Deniability; Conclusions; Diagrams; Appendix 1: Glossary of Bandenbekampfung and Related Terminology; Appendix 2: German Rank Structures; Appendix 3: The Perpetrators; Appendix 4: Former Bandenkampfverbande in 1965; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.

About the Author

Philip W. Blood, formerly a senior lecturer at the University of Aachen, is now the general editor of the Wehrmacht in War series for the Association of the United States Army. A British citizen, he lives in Aachen, Germany.

Reviews

"A novel and provocative interpretation of German 'antipartisan' operations that offers a detailed examination of the theory and practice of Nazi security warfare."--Edward B. Westermann, author of Hitler's Police Battallions: Enforcing Racial War in the East--Edward B. Westermann
"An in-depth and detailed examination of Bandenbekampfung...offers far more insight and detail than a more casual examination, making it a recommended pick for libraries seeking a scholarly reference."--Midwest Book Review--Midwest Book Review (04/24/2008)
"Blood breaks new, important ground in better enabling scholars to discern the forest for the trees...[He] has rendered invaluable service in illuminating these issues to a new and unsettling degree."--American Historical Review-- (07/03/2008)
"This book does not make for comfortable reading. It is a meticulous examination of Bandenbekampfung, a term which has much broader and more pervasive meaning than simply 'antipartisan warfare' and which characterized the German approach to security in occupied areas during the Second World War. Philip Blood uses abundant documentary and oral evidence to take us beyond the verdict of Christopher Browning's ground-breaking Ordinary Men, his study of Reserve Police Battalion 101 in Poland, by examining the policy and structure that enabled ordinary men to do such extraordinarily dreadful things."--From the foreword by Richard Holmes--Richard Holmes
"An important book for those interested in World War II and the law of war."--NYMAS Review--NYMAS Review (11/06/2008)