Contents • • • • • • Publication [ ] Der totale Widerstand was first published in 1957 in seven volumes by the Swiss Non-Commissioned Officers' Association ( Schweizer Unteroffiziersverband, SUOV) with an intent of broad dissemination to the Swiss population. The book was a commercial success, being reprinted five times and selling in the tens of thousands, notably in West Germany and Austria. Songs Of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Main Tenu Samjhawan Ki here. It became by far the most well-known of von Dach's more than a hundred works on military tactics. Contents [ ] The book is a manual for against an occupying force, intended to be used by civilians rather than by soldiers. It presumes a form of irregular resistance involving no arms heavier than light infantry arms: rifles, hand grenades and mines.

The topics covered in the first volume include: • the operative, tactical, technical and psychological basics of guerrilla warfare, such as sabotage, assassination and conduct under torture, • the establishment, organization and command of guerrilla warfare units and civilian resistance movements, • enemy methods of suppressing and combating guerrilla warfare. Period Converter Metatrader more. The other volumes describe the manufacture and use of basic weapons: chemical weapons (vol. 2), the Partisan 9mm submachine gun (vol. 3), the TARN pistol (vol. 5), the TELL noise suppressor (vol. 6) and hand grenades (vol. Reception [ ] In Switzerland [ ] While popular in the militia officer corps, the book was not well received by senior Army leaders, who favored a defence policy based on conventional combined-arms and mechanized warfare rather than irregular warfare.