Product Description

This volume details all aspects of the division's history with a balanced mix of both tactical and strategic accounts, including the creation and training of these teenage warriors and their baptism of fire in the Normandy campaign in World War 2.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #108256 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent
This is far too heavy going to be regarded as a ‘coffee-table’ book, but for the reader with a more in-depth interest in WWII, it is a must. It is interesting to read an account from the German point of view. Throughout the war the author served with several elite Waffen-SS units and so knows his stuff from first-hand. The style is a bit dry but then again it is crammed with information not easily available elsewhere and is a blow by blow history of one of the finest fighting units of the War. Well worth having.

Hard going but worth it.
These 2 volumes on the hitler youth panzer division, are not for the faint of heart.
The detail and indepth study of the fighting and division composition
is staggering. The narrative focus's on every, single action undertaken by elements of the 12th SS pz. div.
Usually following individual abteilung, the author frequently goes down to platoon and even squad level.
Not only reporting from the German perspective, the allied point of view is studied as well.
Having been a student of the second world war since I was a teenager,
I can state that there aren't many divisional historys that are so
thorough as this study of the 12th SS.
Approach with caution if you are a casual reader! You've been warned.