SS-Steel Rain: Waffen-SS Panzer Battles in the West, 1944-1945
- ISBN-10
- 186227150X
- ISBN-13
- 9781862271500
- Category
- History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Spellmount
- Author
- Tim Ripley
Description
This miltary history gives the reader an account of the battles fought by the panzer divisions of the Waffen-SS, amongst one of the finest units in Germany. The author takes us from D-day to Arnhem, and through to the Battle of the Bulge.
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