SS Steel rain : Waffen-SS panzer battles in the West, 1944-1945

A highly illustrated and authoritative account of the battles fought by the armoured formations of the Waffen-SS, from D-Day to Arnhem to the Battle of the Bulge.

In mid-1944, the panzer divisions of the Waffen-SS were among the finest units in the German order of battle.

Well equipped and trained, imbued with a fierce ideological faith in National Socialism, and commanded by charismatic leaders such as 'Sepp' Dietrich, 'Panzer' Meyer and 'Papa' Hausser, the Leibstandarte, Das Reich, Hitlerjugend, Hohenstaufen and Frundsberg Divisions were a force to be reckoned with.