TY - BOOK ID - 78678762 TI - The Waffen-SS in Normandy AU - Buffetaut, Yves AU - CadeĢ, Emmanuel AU - Bell, Myriam PY - 2019 SN - 1612006426 9781612006420 9781612006413 1612006418 PB - [Havertown, PA] DB - UniCat KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - D-Day, 1944 (Normandy invasion) KW - Normandy Invasion, 1944 (Military operation) KW - Campaigns KW - Tank warfare. KW - Waffen-SS. KW - History. KW - 1939-1945 KW - France KW - World War II Period UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78678762 AB - One of the greatest paradoxes of the Battle of Normandy is that the German divisions found it much harder to reach the front line than the Allies, who had to cross the sea and then deploy in a cramped bridgehead until the American breakthrough of late July 1944. The Waffen-SS were no better off than the Heer units and German high command never quite got on top of operations, as the divisions were thrown into the melee one by one. During the month of June 1944, the Panzer divisions present succeeded in containing the Allies in a small bridgehead. ER -