BATTLEGROUND EUROPE: DAS REICH: 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich - Drive to Normandy, June 1944: Tulle-Violette Szabo-Oradour-SAS Bulbasket

Meticulous account of the terrible march of Das Reich - the SS armoured division whose bid to halt the D-Day invasion was impeded by the French Maquis - and of the terrible massacre of civilians exacted in revenge.

Of the many atrocities committed by the men of Hitler’s Waffen SS, the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane in June 1944 is probably the most notorious. The French Resistance - or Maquis - aided and supplied by agent’s of Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) attempted to delay the advance northwards of the SS armoured Das Reich Division, who were racing from Montauban in south-west France to Normandy to help stem the D-Day invasion. By blowing up trains and tracks, felling trees across roads and other hit and run tactics, the Maquis delayed Das Reich for up to a week - but succeeded in enraging the Germans past reason. Their reprisal was the massacre of women, children and old people at Oradour village - and the hanging of scores more in the town of Tulle. Many victims were herded into a church, where they were burned alive, others were thrown down a well. In this meticulous account of Das Reich’s bloody march, Philip Vickers tells the full, terrible story, accompanied by a huge range of then and now photographs, maps, and accounts by survivors.

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Product Code:	10792
Author:	Philip Vickers, foreword Jacques Poirier
Format:	189pp, b/w photographs, maps, sb. Published Price £9.95
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