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.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Timeline of Events; The SS Divisions' Slow Road to the Front; The Waffen-SS in the Battles of July; On the Road to Falaise; Afterword; Further Reading; Index; Back Cover.