Featured battle : Höchstädt

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 18 June 1800

The French army of the Rhine continued their advance crossing the Donau [Danube] at will. In this contact on the north bank at Höchstädt, outnumbered by four to one, the Austrians lost 1,000 killed, 3,000 men as prisoners of war, 20 guns and 4 colours.

Hill 112, The Key to Defeating Hitler in Normandy

Tim Saunders
This is the story of the battle for one hill in the whole of the Normandy campaign. The content covers all layers of action from Montgomery’s strategic vision to the gritty realism of the individual soldier. Voices from both sides are heard as the positions shift back and forth over quite a small very important hill. Tim Saunders’ extensive research has produced a narrative which takes the reader as close to the truth of a battle as one can get. So close that some of the truth is not for the squeamish. The casualties on both sides were huge but the action succeeded strategically in pulling in most of the Panzer reserves to free up the American sweep to the south.
The gripping narrative is supported by an abundance of maps and a super set of photographs, as far as battle books go you could not get better.
We highly recommend Tim Saunders’ book.

Pen & Sword Military, 2022