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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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Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944
2013, MBI Publishing Company LLC
in English
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Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944
Mar 06, 2009, Pan Macmillan
in English
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La division Das Reich et la Résistance, 8 juin-20 juin 1944
July 4, 1997, Pygmalion
Paperback
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Das Reich: the march of the 2nd SS PanzerDivision through France, June 1944
1993, Papermac
in English
- New ed.
033359150X 9780333591505
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Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944
1993, Pan Macmillan
Paperback
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Das Reich: the march of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France
1991, H. Holt
in English
- 1st Owl book ed.
0805014071 9780805014075
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Das Reich: The March of the 2nd Ss Panzer Division Through France
January 1991, Henry Holt & Co (P)
Paperback
in English
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Das Reich: the march of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France
1983, Berkley Pub. Group
in English
- Special action photo ed
051507134X 9780515071344
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Das Reich: the march of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France
1982, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
in English
- 1st American ed.
003057059X 9780030570599
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Das Reich: the march of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France
1982, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
in English
- [Book Club ed.]
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Das Reich: March of the Second Ss Panzer Division Through France
April 1982, Henry Holt & Co
in English
003057059X 9780030570599
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Das Reich: March of the Second Ss Panzer Division Through France
April 1982, Henry Holt & Co
Hardcover
in English
- 1st American ed edition
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Das Reich: the march of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France
1982, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
in English
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Das Reich: resistance and the march of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France, June 1944
1981, M. Joseph
in English
0718120744 9780718120740
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