Organized during 1943, 10th SS
Panzer Division saw its first action in the spring of 1944
during the attempt to relieve an encircled German army on
the Eastern Front. Several months later they were ordered
west to Normandy, where by mid-June 1944 German defenses
against the Allied offensive were crumbling. Here the
division engaged in a series of armored ounterattacks
against British and American forces. The 10th SS gradually
had to fall back to Falaise, where the division escaped the
Allied encirclement with no tanks and only a fraction of its
men. They next defended against the Allied airborne assault
during Operation Market Garden in September 1944, fought in
Alsace before returning to the Eastern Front. There, east of
Berlin, the division participated in the final, futile
battles against the Red Army before escaping to
Czechoslovakia to surrender to the U.S. Army.
New in d/w -Large format, 383pp,
numerous b/w photographs, illustrations 3-view drawings
