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Preface and acknowledgements
Dramatis Personae – Senior German Commanders
Principal German Armoured Fighting Vehicles Deployed in Normandy
Principal Allied Armoured Fighting Vehicles deployed in Normandy
Maps
Chapter 1
Panzergruppe West’s Dilemma
Invasion where?
Hitler’s armoured fist
Conflict in the High Command
Lost opportunity
Counterattack
Chapter 2
The Road to Falaise – Goodwood, Cobra and Mortain
Strategic ground
Qualitative edge
The eastern flank
The break-out
Mortain: the panzers strike back
Chapter 3
Throw them back into the Sea – 21st Panzer Division
Combat experience
Invasion: they’re coming!
Into action
Stopping Goodwood
Final days
Chapter 4
Formidably Equipped – Panzer Lehr Panzer Division
Combat experience
Into action
Cobra strikes
Fighting withdrawal
Final days
Chapter 5
Fanatical Nazi Teenagers – 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend
Combat experience
Into action
Containing Epsom
Battle for Falaise
Final days
Chapter 6
The Iron Fist – 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen
Combat experience
Into action
Cobra strikes
Final days
Chapter 7
The Tigers are coming! – The 503, 101 SS and 102 SS Heavy Panzer Battalions
Combat experience
Villers-Bocage
Stopping Goodwood
Battle for Hill 112
Totalise juggernaut
Battle for Falaise
Final days
Chapter 8
Operation Lüttich – 2nd Panzer Division
Combat experience
Into action
Cobra strikes
Mortain counterattack
Final days
Chapter 9
Tough Resistance – 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler
Combat experience
Into action
Stopping Goodwood
Final days
Chapter 10
Fighting Withdrawal – 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen
Combat experience
Containing Epsom
Battle for Hill 112
Mont Pinçon
Final days
Chapter 11
Point 112 – 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg
Combat experience
Containing Epsom
Battle for Hill 112
Mortain counterattack
Final days
Chapter 12
The Road to St Lô – 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich
Combat experience
Troubled march north
Into action
Cobra strikes
Roncey Pocket
Mortain counterattack
Final days
Chapter 13
Stabilising the Line - 116th Panzer Division Windhund
Combat experience
Into action
Mortain counterattack
Final days
Chapter 14
Stopping Patton – 9th Panzer Division
Combat experience
Mortain counterattack
Battle for Beaumont-sur-Sarthe
Final days
Chapter 15
Falaise – The Killing Grounds
The Falaise salient
Fighting retreat
Closing the gap
Escape from the cauldron
Battle for St Lambert
Horrendous destruction
Chapter 16
The Flawed Victory
The Rouen bridgehead
Fall of Paris
Counting the cost
Remarkable recovery
Fighting withdrawal
Chapter 17
The Reckoning in the West
Victory at Arnhem
Masterly effort
Holding the Rhine
Surrender
Chapter 18
The Reckoning in the East
Operation Solstice
Operation Spring Awakening
Final defeat
Surrender
Eight bloody months
Plates
Appendices
Appendix I
Panzer Division and General Headquarters Panzer Formations Strength in Northern France, June-September 1944
Appendix II
German Panzer Divisions in Normandy
Appendix III
Independent and Infantry Panzer Units in Normandy
Appendix IV
German Order of Battle
Appendix V
Panzergruppe West and 7th ArmyPanzer Division Commanders
Appendix VI
Principal Allied Codenames
Appendix VII
Table of Equivalent Ranks
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
