Steel Inferno - Buch

Chosen from Hitler's bodyguards, the Waffen-SS tank commanders formed one of the most highly disciplined fighting units in the history of warfare. And as the Allies launched their invasion at Normandy, the Panzer Corps were given an impossible task: to fight back with the tenacity, skill and courage that would cost thousands of Allied soldiers their lives.

With a soldier's appreciation for the exhilaration of battle and a historian's attention to detail, Ret. Major General Michael Reynolds goes inside Hitler's military machine to chronicle the rise and fall of the tank warriors who redefined armored warfare. Putting us in the stifling cockpit of World War II tanks, Steel Inferno reveals how the Germans used precise new tactics, better weapons, and a fight-to-the-death spirit as they unleashed ferocious counterstrikes against the advancing Allies in France, encircling them in a ring of fire and steel. From the men to the machines to the battles themselves, this is a fascinating blow-by-blow account of three bloody months that altered history forever.