| 2. Panzerdivision En Normandie: Volume 1 - Formation Et Combats, Juin-Juillet 1944 Contributor(s): Deprun, Frédéric (Author) |
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ISBN: 2840484366 ISBN-13: 9782840484363 Publisher: Editions Heimdal OUR PRICE: $75.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: French Published: December 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - Reference | Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (see Also Travel - Maps & Road Atlases) - History | Military - Weapons |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 8.6" W x 11.9" (3.50 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Text in French. The first of a three-volume, richly illustrated study of the German armored unit. The author Fr d ric Deprun, has devoted more than ten years to studying meticulously this armored unit's engagements in the Norman bocage. The first part deals with the unit re-forming in the Arras area while waiting for D-Day then guides the reader through the murderous fighting at Caumont-l'Evant , Cahagnes, Cheux, then May-sur-Orne in June and July 1944. In the second volume, an account is given of the Panzer unit's inability to contain the Allied offensive to the south of Saint-L at the end of July 1944, then the attack at Mortain up until the moment when the men in the unit with the Trident were encircled in the Chambois-Argentancauldron. The three volumes are illustrated with 800 unpublished photographs and more than 60 maps, guide the reader through the host of eyewitness accounts along the 2.Panzer-Division's tragic route through the Calvados, until it crossed the River Seine. |