Within days of the D-Day landings, the Das Reich 2nd SS Panzer Division marched north through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler's fortress Europe. This account describes how these veterans of the bloodiest fighting of the Russian Front were hounded for every mile of their march by the saboteurs of the Resistance and agents of the Allied Special Forces. Along their route they took savage reprisals that number as the most appalling atrocities of war.