Buy NORMANDIE 1944 2. PANZER-DIVISION TOME III FREDERIC DEPRUN HEIMDAL

Text: FR

Format: 30.5 x 21.5 x 2.5cm

The final act of the 2. Panzer-Division's involvement in the Battle of Normandy begins on 13 August 1944 in Volume III of the three book series on the German armoured unit. The transfer between Alençon and Argentan puts the unit in a depletion of its fighting forces during a dramatic week of withdrawal. After the illusions of counter-attack and the hopes of resistance in Normandy, Kommandeur von Lüttwitz had to avoid the annihilation of his Panzer-Division in the encirclement of the Falaise-Argentan pocket. The losses of the unit on the banks of the Dives were heavy but the 2.Panzer-Division managed to extract itself from the Kessel to cross the Seine at the end of August 1944. A slow retreat began towards the German border towards an essential reformation for a very weakened unit.

Frédéric Deprun, with this Volume III, Falaise and withdrawal, develops in 320 pages the chronology of the week of combat in the Falaise-Argentan pocket and the retreat routes towards Rouen and Germany with the help of testimonies, maps and numerous unpublished photographs.