Book description
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 Hasting's
powerful account of their progress is a true military classic.
Max Hastings, author of twenty books, was editor of
the Daily Telegraph for almost a decade, and then for six years
edited the Evening Standard in London. In his youth he was
foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television. He has won
many awards for his journalism, particularly his work in the South
Atlantic in 1982. He was knighted in 2002.
