Steel Inferno. 1st SS Panzer Corps in Normandy. The Story of the 1st and 12th SS Panzer Diviasions in the 1944 Normandy Campaign

Great Britain: Spellmount. Hardback. First Edition. The author has researched meticulously the battles between these young Waffen-SS soldiers and their British, Canadian, American and Polish adversaries. He brings a new balance to the overall picture and uniquely quantifies 'the enemy' in each action. His book dissects the British disasters at Villers-Bocage, and in Operation GOODWOOD when over 250 tanks were lost in a single operation; it describes the desperate effort by the Americans to stem the German counter-attack at Mortain, when hundreds of RAF Typhoon sorties were flown in support of the ground troops; and it details the costly advances of the Canadians and Poles as they moved to trap the Germans in the killing grounds of the Falaise Pocket. Controversially, it lays to rest forever the myth that these two remarkable Waffen-SS Divisions were annihilated in Normandy. As a former professions soldier Michael Reynolds is able to describe in q unique manner the extraordinary achievements of men who have been equated to Attila's Huns or the scourging hordes of Ghengis Khan, and he gives a clear insight into their mentality and motivation. He concludes that we may not see their like again. Illustrated. 314 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1997.