Das Reich

A gripping, authoritative history of one of the darkest periods in the Second World War, as the Resistance, the SOE and the SAS attempt to hold back the 2nd SS Panzer Division in France.

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

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

A gripping blend of narrative and investigation

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.