Waffen-Ss Armour in Normandy

The Combat History of Ss Panzer Regiment 12 and Ss PanzerjäGer Abteilung 12, Normandy 1944

Norbert Számvéber (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2012
Helion & Company (Verlag)
978-1-907677-24-3 (ISBN)

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SS Armour in Normandy presents the combat history of SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 and SS-Panzerjager-Abteilung 12 in the Battle for France from June to the end of August 1944 based on transcriptions of their original unit war diaries from the Military Historical Archive in Prague. Both armoured units belonged to the 12th SS-Panzer-Division "Hitlerjugend". The SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 was fully-equipped with Panzer IV and Panther tanks. The main AFV of the SS-Panzerjager-Abteilung 12 was the Jagdpanzer IV L/48 tank-destroyer.

Written and footnoted by the author based upon original wartime files in Prague that have remained almost unknown, the book starts with the story of the units' establishment and training in 1943/1944, including for example the shipments of equipment, order of battle and tactical numbers of the tanks. Also, a daily chronology of the combat actions is described in great detail, from the 12th SS-Panzer-Division traveling to the Caen sector to the Operation Totalize and withdrawal to the Seine River.

Documents from SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 presented in the book include the following: combat reports, list of knocked-out enemy tanks, German personnel and tank losses, combat orders, summary of acquired combat experiences and others.

This is an impressive look at tactical-level events and command decisions, highlighting the German armoured combat tactics which were able to stop Montgomery's Army Group from breaking through the German line for two months near Caen. In addition, the book has benefited from the contribution of rare information, photographs and documents from the archive of noted Waffen-SS historian Mark C. Yerger.

Dr. Norbert Szamveber is a Hungarian archivist and military historian. He was born in 1975 in Budapest. He finished studies in 1999 in Eoetvoes Lorand University, Faculty of Arts, History. Since 1997 he has worked in the Hungarian Ministry of Defense Institute of Military History and Museum in Budapest, and since 2005 has been the Chief of Hungarian Military Archives. His research skills are in the field of armoured warfare during World War II and the military history of the Waffen-SS, especially from 1944 to 1945 in Hungary. In 2003, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the subject "Konrad 3 - A Tank Battle for Budapest in 1945" at the University of National Defence "Zrinyi Miklos" in Budapest. He is author and co-author of 15 books and many articles. He is married and lives in Budapest.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.2.2012
Zusatzinfo	48 photographs, 10 documents, 13 maps
Verlagsort	Solihull
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-907677-24-0 / 1907677240
ISBN-13	978-1-907677-24-3 / 9781907677243
Zustand	Neuware