Hardcover edition. History of the Frenchmen who volunteered to fight for the Waffen-SS against the communist forces of Soviet Russia. In their brief history the soldiers of the French Waffen-SS demonstrated their fiber as soldiers and human beings in a series of hopeless engagements on the Eastern Front against vastly superior enemy forces. Almost two-thirds of them died on the battlefield or in captivity. Color cover painting by Ramiro Bujeiro, 3 color photos, 137 B&W photos, 4 drawings, 4 maps, bibliography.