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Jack Didden and Marten Swarts: Kampfgruppe Walther and Panzerbrigade 107
A thorn in the side of Market Garden (Achtung: Dieser Titel ist nur in englischer Sprache lieferbar) | |
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Die Gliederung des Inhalts: - Preface - Introduction - Kampfgruppen - Prologue - Chapter 1: Back to the grindstone (5 -10 September 1944) - Chapter 2:The birth of a battle group (11-13 September 1944) - Chapter 3: A failed counterattack (14 September 1944) - Chapter 4: Digging in (15-16 September 1944) - Chapter 5: Operation Market Garden (17-18 September 1944) - Chapter 6: Operation Hurry On (19 - 20 September 1944) - Chapter 7: Enter the Panthers (19 - 21 September 1944) - Chapter 8: HeIl's Highway and Danger from the South (22 - 24 September 1944) - Chapter 9: Setting up a new position (25 - 29 September 1944) - Chapter 10: Lucky Seventh? (30 September - 7 October 1944) - Chapter 11: Interlude (8 - 11 October 1944) - Chapter 12: Constellation and exit Walther (12 - 19 October 1944) - Conclusions - Appendix I: Order of Battle Kampfgruppe Walther - Appendix II: German units - Appendix III: Structure Kampfgruppe Walther - Appendix IV: Principal Allied opponents - Appendix V: AFV losses Panzerbrigade 107 - Appendix VI: Casualties Operation Constellation Bibliography: - Photo Credits |
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This book teils the story of Kampfgruppe Walther and Panzerbrigade 107. We have managed to unearth much new material on this relatively unknown battle group. The battle group first saw action on 11 September 1944 after the British Guards Division captured the bridge at Lommel/Neerpelt, nicknamed Joe's Bridge. In a bid to first annihilate the bridgehead and then block any further Allied advance an improvised battle group was formed under Fallschirmjäger colonel Erich Walther. The group eventually consisted of soldiers from all services, Fallschirmjäger, Luftwaffe, regular army and SS. This book tells the story day by day. After the failed counterattack at Neerpelt Kampfgruppe Walther fought against the Americans and British during Operation Market Garden. From early October it was engaged in a series of bloody battles in the Peel marshes before Walther relinquished command and the eponymous battle group ceased to exist. During its brief period of existence it fought the US 10Ist Airborne Division, the US 7th Armored Division, the British 3rd Division and the Guards and IIth Armoured Divisions. All of the engagements are dealt with from both sides and in minute detail.The story culminates in the Battle for Overloon. Here some of the toughest fighting since Normandy took place and Allied and German casualties were horrendous. We have found that the existing literature about this period is at best incomplete and at worst false. Some of the key questions that are answered are: where was the first tank engagement in the Netherlands in 1944? Why did Panzerbrigade 107 fail to take Son and Veghel? What was the impact on Market Garden? Why did the Americans fail to take Overloon? Why did the Second Tactical Air Force not intervene? Over 450 pictures, most of them never published before, documents and full-colour maps illustrate the text.
Pappeinband, 428 Seiten mit vielen Abbildungen, Großformat. Verlag: Zwaardfisch Publishers, NEU (in Folie eingeschweisst) 
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