BLOODY VERRIERES: THE I. SS-PANZERKORPS' DEFENCE OF THE VERRIERES-BOURGUEBUS RIDGES VOLUME I
Written by Arthur W. Gullachsen
Published by Casemate Publishers
in 2021
ISBN: 9781636240022
BLOODY VERRIERES: THE I. SS-PANZERKORPS' DEFENCE OF THE VERRIERES-BOURGUEBUS RIDGES VOLUME I
Written by Arthur W. Gullachsen.
Stock no. 1827638
1st.
2021.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Operations Goodwood and Atlantic, 18-22 July 1944. The first of a two-volume set, a period of five days is examined to illustrate the attritional warfare of the Normandy campaign and cataclysmic battlefield collision of two armies, Panzergruppe West and the British Second Army, practicing entirely different operational doctrines. Black paper boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781636240022. Pale grubby mark to vertical edge of text block else contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at top edge.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword by Russel Hart
- Acknowledgements
- Guide to the battle map unit abbreviation
- Introduction: The fighting east of the Orne, 18 July - 3 August 1944
- 1 The German way of war in Normandy, July 1944
- 2 The I. SS-Panzerkorps on the eve of Goodwood, 17 July 1944
- 3 The formations of the I. SS-Panzerkorps in the line, 17 July 1944
- 4 Operation Goodwood: the attack of the 8th British Corps, 18 July 1944
- 5 The first counter-attacks of I. SS-Panzerkorps, 18 July 1944
- 6 The assault of the 5th Guards Armoured Brigade, 18 July 1944
- 7 18 July: the British and Germans regroup and launch more attacks
- 8 Operation Atlantic, 18 July: the 272. Infanterie-Division is pushed back
- 9 The Leibstandarte and Hitlejugent hold the line
- 10 Atlantic, 19 July 1944: the defeat of the 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade
- 11 A further attack on St Andrew-sur-Orne, 22nd July 1944
- Conclusion