2.Panzer-Division Tome 3

2.Panzer-Division Tome 3: Falaise et Repli. 13 août – septembre 1944

2.Panzer-Division Tome 3 is the final part of the Division’s engagement in the  Battle of Normandy beginning on 13 August.

Moving the unit between Alençon and Argentan wore its fighting units down during a week’s dramatic retreat. Following on the illusions brought about by the counter-attack and the hopes of resistance in Normandy, its Kommandeur, von Luttwitz, had to avoid annihilation in the Falaise-Argentan Pocket. The unit’s losses along the banks of the Dives were heavy, but the 2.Panzer-Division managed to get itself out of the Kessel (Cauldron) and across the Seine at the end of August 1. A slow retreat started towards the German border and the much-weakened unit’s inevitable reorganisation.

In 352 pages, Frédéric Deprun with his book 2.Panzer-Division, Volume III: Falaise and retreat – 13 August-September 1944 develops the timeline of the week’s fighting in the Falaise-Argentan Pocket and the retreat routes towards Rouen and Germany with the help of eye-witness accounts, maps and a host of unpublished photographs.

Book Data

Authors: Frédéric Deprun
ISBN: 9782840485773
Pages: 352
Photos: 100s colour & black & white photos & maps
Language: French
Physical: Hardcover, portrait

Contents

• Revers.
• HKL ALENÇON
  Panzergruppe Eberbach
• ORNE – 13-21 AOÛT 1944
  L’impasse de Carrouges
  Saint-Aubin/Laleu
  Les colonnes fantômes
  Rânes
  La H.K.L Écouché /Fromentel
  Franchir l’Orne
  Au nord-ouest Argentan
• LA POCHE DE FALAISE
  Briser l’encerclement
  Par Chambois
  Sortir de Gouffern
  Saint-Lambert-sur-Dives
  Magny
  Moissy
  Vers Coudehard
• APRÈS LE KESSEL 21-25 AOÜT 1944
  Rückmarsch
  Regroupement dans l’Eure
  Franchir la Seine
  La 2.Panzer-Division face au fleuve
  Zur Heimat
• ANNEXES
  Bibliographie
  Remerciements