DAS REICH: 2ND SS PANZER DIVISION DAS REICH, DRIVE TO NORMANDY, JUNE 1944: BATTLEGROUND EUROPE, FRANCE, SOUTH WEST

by Philip Vickers

The infamous SS Das Reich Division was resting in Montauban, South West France when the Allies invaded Normandy in June 1944. When ordered to rush North, they ran into a series of French Resistance, SAS and SOE delaying actions. This ruthless Division reacted violently and their reprisals culminated in the Massacre at Oradour. This book tells the story of those heroic and tragic days from the British, French and German viewpoints.

189 pages, Paperback

First published July 27, 1999

Reviews

[R. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good book, but I didn't know from the description that it's actually written as a tour guide type thing to follow the march of Das Reich through France. There are street maps, tons of photographs, descriptions of everywhere you would want to go. This is a historian's dream, but for light reading to be done by someone several thousand miles from France . . . there are no doubt better and more appropriate things to pick up.

[Dr. Steven Lysne · Rating 1 out of 5]

Too bad. Really interesting topic but very poorly written.