Dying for Saint-Lô: Hedgerow Hell, July 1944

by Didier Lodieu

From 5 to 20 July 1944 American invasion forces ran into fierce resistance around the French town of Saint-Lô, an important railway and road communications center in Normandy. As well as the Heer divisions such as the Panzer Lehr, GIs had to fight the redoubtable paratroopers and Waffen-SS who made them pay a heavy price for each hedgerow and each village they managed to take.

Genres: History, War, World War II

176 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2007

Reviews

[Mark Merritt · Rating 3 out of 5]

As others have stated, many typos, chapters ending mid sentence, bad grammar. What can you expect from a book written I believe in German first, then translated into French, and then English.

However, what there was written, was not a bad read. And the photos seemed to all be captioned right, mostly.

A weak tree stars…..

[Andrew Herbert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great photos with many in depth photoessays throughout covering mostly German units. The translation is terrible. Much worse than for some of Lodieu’s other books. Bad wven for H&C!!

Florid translations from German to French to English abound. But great photos for modellers and militaria fans.

[Bill Jaffe]

i haven't finished reading this book yet but i found extremely useful information for scenarios that i used in Tide of Iron Normandy expansion.

[Singleton Mosby · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good account of the bloody battle for the Saint-Lo, bocage area. The book is in magazine style with lots of illustrations and good maps. Well writtten (originally in French) altough the typeset is a bit sloppy with bits missing now and then. Seriously recommended.