Description
In the aftermath of D-Day, the battle-hardened 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich moves north through occupied France to reinforce Germany’s crumbling defenses. Hounded by the French Resistance and Allied special forces, the division’s advance becomes a brutal campaign of ambushes, reprisals, courage, and sacrifice, culminating in some of the war’s most notorious atrocities, including the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane. Drawing on the perspectives of German SS troops, resistance fighters, and British operatives, this gripping historical study examines the uneasy boundaries between war and warfare, strategy and tactics, and explores the moral choices—and consequences—of combat. Vivid, investigative, and unsparing, it is both a powerful account of a pivotal military operation and a searching examination of wartime ethics.
Available Editions
paperback
Zenith Press
Published Jun 10, 2013
299 pages
ISBN: 9780760344910
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Details
First Published
1981
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Das Reich by Max Hastings.