{"product_id":"in-the-maelstrom-1","title":"In the Maelstrom","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn estimated 25,000 Ukrainians served in the Fourteenth Waffen-SS “Galicia” Division. Conflicting accounts of their reasons for enlistment and continuing accusations of wartime criminality have fuelled controversial debate for decades.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe first comprehensive study of the division to address both its wartime experience and its postwar fate, \u003ci\u003eIn the Maelstrom\u003c\/i\u003e draws on archival research that includes interrogation records, interviews, memoirs, testimonies, and creative literature. The accounts of veterans often begin with being drafted into the force in their teenage years and continue into postwar life in Italian and British internment camps. These reminiscences are compared with wartime records and recent narratives. Myroslav Shkandrij discusses the commissions of inquiry into war crimes during the 1980s, recent debates over the issue of monuments and commemoration, and different ways in which veterans, the diaspora community, Western governments, and researchers have approached the division and its history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Maelstrom\u003c\/i\u003e brings to light the underexplored Ukrainian experience in the “Galicia” Division during and after the war – an experience that resonates strongly today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Myroslav Shkandrij","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43576094228662,"sku":"9780228016533","price":39.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780228016533_534dabab-64e7-47bf-b29c-81f8da43652c.jpg?v=1726253480","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/in-the-maelstrom-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}