Hill 112: The Key to Defeating Hitler in Normandy Tank T34 2mm gun in an open-top

2mm gun in an open-top rotating turret

German Tank Destroyer - "Normandy Front"

1/35 Scale Minerva Armoured Car by CSM

Meat Grinder provides a study of these horrific battles but also examines how the Red Army did learn from its colossal failures and how its timely analysis of these failures helped pave the way for the eventual Soviet victory against Army Group Centre in the summer of 1944

Hill 112: The Key to Defeating Hitler in Normandy Tank T34 2mm gun in an open-topBy Tim Saunders Paperback 'He who holds Hill 112 holds Normandy' seemed an unlikely maxim when the hill is viewed from a distance, but on reaching its plateau, the vistas unfold in every direction across a huge swath of Normandy. For the Germans it was their vital defensive ground, but for the British it was an essential steppingstone en route to the River Orne and access to the open country south to Falaise. The Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division lost