'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…mehr
'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.
Max Hastings is the author of thirty books, most about conflict, including Bomber Command, Armageddon, Das Reich, The Korean War, The Battle for the Falklands, Vietnam, Operation Pedestal and Abyss, and editor of two anthologies. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and British newspapers, covering eleven wars, including Vietnam, the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the Falklands war. Between 1986 and 2002 he served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard . He has won many prizes for both journalism and his books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London, and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.
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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
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
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