Max Hastings

Das Reich (eBook, ePUB)

The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944 (Pan Military Classics)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'The literary VC goes to without doubt to Max Hastings for his Das Reich . . . the story of a march that left behind a trail of blood and death, torture and heroism' Sunday Telegraph

Within days of the D-Day landings, the Das Reich 2nd SS Panzer Division marched north through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Veterans of the bloodiest fighting of the Russian Front, 15,000 men with their tanks and artillery, they were hounded for every mile of their march by saboteurs of the Resistance and agents of the Allied Special Forces.

Along their route they took reprisals so savage they will live for ever in the chronicles of the most appalling atrocities of war. Max Hastings' Das Reich is a powerful account of their progress and a true military classic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780330529136
• Artikelnr.: 39886746

Autorenporträt

Max Hastings

Inhaltsangabe

Section
i: List of Illustrations Section
ii: Foreward Section
iii: Prologue: London and France, 5/6 June 1944 Chapter
1: 2nd SS Panzer Division: Montauben, Tarn
et
Garonne, May 1944 Chapter
2: SOE: Baker Street Chapter
3: SOE: Southern France Chapter
4: The Road Chapter
5: Tulle: The 'Liberation' Chapter
6: Tulle: The Price Chapter
7: The Jeds Chapter
8: 'Panzer divisions are too good for this...' Chapter
9: '...a rapid and lasting clean up...': Oradour Chapter
10: Excess of Zeal Chapter
11: The SAS: Bulbasket Chapter
12: Normandy Chapter
13: Afterwards Section
iv: Appendix A: 2nd Panzer Division's memorandum on anti
guerilla operations, issued on 9 June 1944 Section
v: Appendix B: Principal Weapons of the maquis and the 2nd Panzer Division Section
vi: Bibliography and a Note on Sources Acknowledgements
vii: Acknowledgements Section
viii: Glossary Section
ix: Notes and References Index
x: Index

Rezensionen

A gripping blend of narrative and investigation Evening Standard