The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism

Campbell's enlightening portrait of the SA, its history, and its relationship to the overall Nazi movement reveals how the organization's leaders reshaped the SA over time to adapt of Germany's changing political concern.

~Bulletin of the Arnold and Leona Institute of Holocaust Research

Provides interesting material, especially about the upper echelons of the SA leadership as a whole.

~Central European History

Based on archival research, Campbell's book offers an unusual insight into the lives and careers of the founding fathers of the SA.

~Choice

By examining the backgrounds of the SA s top leadership between 1925-33, the author shows the changing nature of the SA and its process of growth within the broader rightist movement of the Weimar Republic.

~Don McKale

Among the growing number of efforts to know the men who formed the Nazi Movement, Bruce Campbell has produced one of the better.

~George C. Browder

Author Bruce Campbell offers the first in-depth study in English of men who held the three highest ranks in the SA—men who saw themselves as Germany's paramilitary saviors.

~Library Lane

Full of useful looks at some of the lesser known Nazi leaders, and provides some valuable insights into some obscurer corners of the history of the Nazi movement.

~New York Military Affairs Symposium Newsletter

A captivating and thought-provoking individual and collective portrait of the top leadership of the paramilitary wing of the Nazi party.

~WWII History