Steel inferno
Subtitle: I SS Panzer Corps in Normandy
By: by Michael Reynolds.
Publisher: Sarpedon
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781885119445
Subjects: Waffen-SS. -- SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler," 1; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-304) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Senior dramatis personae; title: Prologue; title: Origins; title: Formation; title: The machines of war; title: Organization and tactics; title: The setting; title: 6th June : D-Day; title: 7th June : first clash; title: 8th to 10th June : the bridgehead battles; title: 11th June : impasse; title: War crimes; title: 12th to 14th June : Operation PERCH and the Battle of Villers-Bocage; title: 14th to 24th June : lull before the storm; title: 25th to 1st July : Operation EPSOM and the Battle of the Odon; title: 2nd to 3rd July : departures and arrivals; title: 4th July : Operation WINDSOR : the Battle for Carpiquet; title: 7th to 11th July : Operation CHARNWOOD and the battle for Caen; title: 10th to 11th July : Operation JUPITER and the battle for Hill 112; title: 12th to 17th July : R&R; title: 18th to 21st July : Operation GOODWOOD and the battle for the Bourguebus Ridge; title: 25th July : Operation SPRING and the Battle of the Plain; title: 26th July to 5th August : The battle for Tilly; title: 6th to 9th August : another Orne bridgehead; title: 6th to 10th August : the Mortain counter-attack; title: 8th to 11th August : Operation TOTALIZE and the First Battle of Falaise; title: 11th to 18th August : the Second Battle of Falaise; title: 11th to 18th August : the Leibstandarte withdraws; title: 18th to 25th August : the Last Battle of Normandy; title: Epilogue; title: Appendixes. 1st SS Panzer Division LAH 1st July 1944; title: 1st SS Panzer Regiment and 1st SS Recce Bn 1st July 1944; title: 1st and 2nd SS Panzer-Grenadier Regiments 1st July 1944; title: 12th SS Panzer Division HJ 6th June 1944; title: 12th SS Panzer Regiment and 12th SS Recce Bn 6th June 1944; title: 25th and 26th SS Panzer-Grenadier Regiments 6th June 1944; title: US Armored Division June 1944; title: British/Canadian/Polish Armored Division June 1944; title: US Infantry Division June 1944; title: British/Canadian Infantry Division June 1944; title: German chain of command June 1944; title: Allied chain of command 6th June 1944; title: Guide to abbreviations and German words