Edward Crankshaw’s classic study of evil - Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny - was first published in 1956. Greenhill are now reissuing the book in paperback with a New Introduction by Charles Messenger. The Gestapo, charged with Nazi state security, still conjures up the images of brutality and horror that it aroused throughout the dark days of World War II and at the Nuremberg trials where the truth behind its maniacal activities was revealed. Edward Crankshaw provides an authoritative overview of the organisation, examining the trail of destruction it blazed across Europe, looking at its structures and its rivalries with other police organisations, and revealing the struggle for power within the Gestaponefarious bureaux. The Gestapo, as Charles Messenger notes in his New Introduction, was ‘the organisation that personified the evil of the Third Reich’. This classic study, although a chilling read, plays an important part in any understanding of that evil. Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 112 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com