Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #266045 in Books
• Published on: 2000-03-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

Good account of a key but largely forgotten battle.
This is another book in the excellent Battleground Europe Series.
This book, using accounts from veterans of 43rd Wessex Division, gives a rounded view of those often unsung county regiment soldiers, and their supporting arms, who fought from the beaches of Normandy through to Germany.
The book uses a good number of current and contemporary photographs to help understand the countryside and appreciate the conditions they fought under.
The tours are useful especially for those new to the area and the locations of cemeteries and memorials helps to complete a visit to the area.
Tim Saunders has written a fine book about a fine Division and bitter battle that should be remembered.

A fantastic eye opener
With films like Saving private Ryan and T.V. programs like Band of Brothers you wouldn't be wrong in thinking that the really hard fighting was done by the yanks. They engaged the main Panzers while we sat back drank tea and twiddled our thumbs.
The truth is far from it and this single book explains why.
Its a brilliantly executed piece of writting and tells the story of the battle for the hardly heard of Hill 112. Where the 43rd division faced off against the elite of the SS panzer arms.
It brings a tear to your eye when you read about the hard bitter quarterless fight that when over the world forgot.

Normandy Hill 112- The Battle of the Odon
I bought this book because I had read serveral books on the subject and where the others fell down was on maps showing the smaller battles around the villages. This covers this in spades, lots of maps showing where the individual companies were and where they were advancing to, this is backed up with lots of pictures showing the areas today and then. The information in the book is also well written, so well that you get a sense of what these men went through, with paragraphs written in the soldiers own words, saying what they went through, from both sides of the conflict.
If you have any interest in the battle of Hill 112 or want to tour the battlefield then this book is for you.