The literary VC goes to without doubt to Max Hastings for his Das Reich . . . the story of a march that left behind a trail of blood and death, torture and heroism' The Sunday Telegraph Within days of the D-Day landings in June 1944, the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich marched north through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler’s Fortress Europe. Veterans of the bloodiest fighting of the Russian Front, 15,000 men with their tanks and artillery, they were hounded for every mile of their march by saboteurs of the Resistance and agents of the Allied Special Forces. Along their route they took reprisals so savage they will live for ever in the chronicles of the most appalling atrocities of war. Max Hastings’s Das Reich is a powerful account of their progress and a true military classic.
Review
His combination of oral history with documentary records revives the authentic flavour of events as they felt at the time -- Times Literary Supplement
The literary VC goes without doubt to Max Hastings for his Das Reich . . . the story of a march that left behind a trail of blood and death, torture and heroism -- Sunday Telegraph
A gripping blend of narrative and investigation -- Evening Standard
About the Author
Max Hastings is a Sunday Times bestselling author who, between 1986 and 2002, served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, of which the most recent are Abyss, All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe. In his youth he was a foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.
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