Steel Inferno: I SS Panzer Corps in Normandy by Michael Reynolds

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Steel Inferno: I SS Panzer Corps in Normandy by Michael Reynolds
FIRST EDITION.  Hard cover
. Sarpedon 1997.  313
pages.  Photographs.  Fine
book
in fine dust jacket.  Great copy!
Summary: This important new work examines the crucial WWII battles that took place in the weeks after D-Day when the German panzers arrived on the scene. After the surprise Allied invasion, the 1st SS Panzer Division, together with its "offspring", 12th SS Panzer (the Hitler Youth Division), were assigned to hold the most important sector of the invasion front. For nearly two months the Allies hammered the enemy, even as the Germans attempted to throw the invaders back into the sea. These most intense armored battles ever fought in the West included some of the legendary exploits and personalities of the war. Normandy was finally cracked in August when Patton led the Americans in a breakout that threatened to get behind the German front. In the ensuing "Falaise pocket", the Germans were finally caught in a battle of near-annihilation.This book is a main selection of the Military Book Club.-- 16 pages of illustrations-- Shifts the historic emphasis of the Normandy campaign away from the beachlandings to its crucial phase: breaking through the panzer divisions-- Author's previous book, The Devil's Adjutant, has sold over 25,000 copies in cloth-- Author is formerly a British general, commander of NATO's International Mobile Force, and Director of its Military Plans and Policy Division-- A gripping, in-depth work of history that includes non-stop combat and heroism
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