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First publish date: 2009
Authors: Kitchen, Martin.
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Reference book covering armored warfare during the North Africa Campaign of World War II with detailed background on organizations and equipment of all combatant and narrative combat reports from engagements from February to June 1941
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Traces the World War II career of the "Desert Fox," commander of the German Afrika Corps, finally defeated by the British at el-Alamein.
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In the unforgiving North African desert of 1942, a small elite British unit, the Long Range Desert Group, launches daring raids behind German lines to halt Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps. Pressfield’s gripping narrative blends historical detail with tense action.
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World-renowned British historian Sir Max Hastings recounts one of the most horrific months of World War II.
June 1944, the month of the D-Day landings carried out by Allied forces in Normandy, France. Germany’s 2nd SS Panzer Division, one of Adolf Hitler’s most elite armor units, had recently been pulled from the Eastern Front and relocated to France in order to regroup, recruit more troops, and restock equipment. With Allied forces suddenly on European ground, the division—Das Reich —was called up to counter the invasion. Its march northward to the shores of Normandy, 15,000 men strong, would become infamous as a tale of unparalleled brutality in World War II.
Das Reich is Sir Max Hastings’s narrative of the atrocities committed by the 2nd SS Panzer Division during June of 1944: first, the execution of 99 French civilians in the village of Tulle on June 9; and second, the massacre of 642 more in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10. Throughout the book, Hastings expertly shifts perspective between French resistance fighters, the British Secret Service (who helped coordinate the French resistance from afar and on the ground), and the German soldiers themselves. With its rare, unbiased approach to the ruthlessness of World War II, Das Reich explores the fragile moral fabric of wartime mentality.
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A comparative biography of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, tracing their paths from provincial roots through World War I trench combat to leading roles in World War II.
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