The Field Men: The SS Officers Who Led the Einsatzkommandos – the Nazi Mobile Killing Units

Colonel French L. MacLean, United States Army, (Ret.), served over thirty-four years in the Senior Service. Born in Peoria, Illinois, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1974, and later from the Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies. He has written numerous history books under the Schiffer label. Two thousand nine hundred forty-five men lined up in four motorized columns immediately behind the German Army on June 22, 1941 as it prepared to launch Operation Barbarossa the German attack on the Soviet Union an attack designed to win the war.