Almost the entire slate is 1939–45 this week, from Holland and Murray's new Japan series through Parshall on Task Force 58 to Gullachsen's superb Hitlerjugend attrition study — your Pick, and rightly so. Rummage on Spain's 1809 and Kane on the centurionate provide welcome breathing room.
🎯 This Week's Pick
Arthur W. Gullachsen, "The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend: Volume II: Operations Martlet, Epsom, Windsor and Charnwood 11 June-12 July 1944" (Casemate, 2026)
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Arthur W. Gullachsen — author, The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend Vol. II (Casemate)
World War IITactics & Battles
Gullachsen's second volume on the destruction of the 12th SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend covers the critical Normandy operations — Martlet, Epsom, Windsor, and Charnwood — during the desperate month after D-Day. This is granular divisional-level combat history in the bocage and around Caen, exactly the kind of operational detail that reveals how attrition ground down a near-full-strength Panzer division. An hour-long interview that should appeal to anyone serious about the Normandy campaign.
