Max Hastings is a Sunday Times bestselling author of thirty books, most about conflict, including Das Reich, Abyss, All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe. Between 1986 and 2002 he 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. In his youth he was a foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.

His combination of oral history with documentary records revives the authentic flavour of events as they felt at the time

• Section - i: List of Illustrations Section - ii: Foreward Section - iii: Prologue: London and France, 5/6 June 1944 Chapter - 1: 2nd SS Panzer Division: Montauben, Tarn-et-Garonne, May 1944 Chapter - 2: SOE: Baker Street Chapter - 3: SOE: Southern France Chapter - 4: The Road Chapter - 5: Tulle: The 'Liberation' Chapter - 6: Tulle: The Price Chapter - 7: The Jeds Chapter - 8: 'Panzer divisions are too good for this...' Chapter - 9: '...a rapid and lasting clean up...': Oradour Chapter - 10: Excess of Zeal Chapter - 11: The SAS: Bulbasket Chapter - 12: Normandy Chapter - 13: Afterwards Section - iv: Appendix A: 2nd Panzer Division's memorandum on anti-guerilla operations, issued on 9 June 1944 Section - v: Appendix B: Principal Weapons of the maquis and the 2nd Panzer Division Section - vi: Bibliography and a Note on Sources Acknowledgements - vii: Acknowledgements Section - viii: Glossary Section - ix: Notes and References Index - x: Index

Max Hastings is a Sunday Times bestselling author of thirty books, most about conflict, including Das Reich, Abyss, All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe. Between 1986 and 2002 he 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. In his youth he was a foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.

His combination of oral history with documentary records revives the authentic flavour of events as they felt at the time

• Section - i: List of Illustrations Section - ii: Foreward Section - iii: Prologue: London and France, 5/6 June 1944 Chapter - 1: 2nd SS Panzer Division: Montauben, Tarn-et-Garonne, May 1944 Chapter - 2: SOE: Baker Street Chapter - 3: SOE: Southern France Chapter - 4: The Road Chapter - 5: Tulle: The 'Liberation' Chapter - 6: Tulle: The Price Chapter - 7: The Jeds Chapter - 8: 'Panzer divisions are too good for this...' Chapter - 9: '...a rapid and lasting clean up...': Oradour Chapter - 10: Excess of Zeal Chapter - 11: The SAS: Bulbasket Chapter - 12: Normandy Chapter - 13: Afterwards Section - iv: Appendix A: 2nd Panzer Division's memorandum on anti-guerilla operations, issued on 9 June 1944 Section - v: Appendix B: Principal Weapons of the maquis and the 2nd Panzer Division Section - vi: Bibliography and a Note on Sources Acknowledgements - vii: Acknowledgements Section - viii: Glossary Section - ix: Notes and References Index - x: Index

Max Hastings is a Sunday Times bestselling author of thirty books, most about conflict, including Das Reich, Abyss, All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe. Between 1986 and 2002 he 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. In his youth he was a foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.

His combination of oral history with documentary records revives the authentic flavour of events as they felt at the time

• Section - i: List of Illustrations Section - ii: Foreward Section - iii: Prologue: London and France, 5/6 June 1944 Chapter - 1: 2nd SS Panzer Division: Montauben, Tarn-et-Garonne, May 1944 Chapter - 2: SOE: Baker Street Chapter - 3: SOE: Southern France Chapter - 4: The Road Chapter - 5: Tulle: The 'Liberation' Chapter - 6: Tulle: The Price Chapter - 7: The Jeds Chapter - 8: 'Panzer divisions are too good for this...' Chapter - 9: '...a rapid and lasting clean up...': Oradour Chapter - 10: Excess of Zeal Chapter - 11: The SAS: Bulbasket Chapter - 12: Normandy Chapter - 13: Afterwards Section - iv: Appendix A: 2nd Panzer Division's memorandum on anti-guerilla operations, issued on 9 June 1944 Section - v: Appendix B: Principal Weapons of the maquis and the 2nd Panzer Division Section - vi: Bibliography and a Note on Sources Acknowledgements - vii: Acknowledgements Section - viii: Glossary Section - ix: Notes and References Index - x: Index