A collection of digitally enhanced photos of Erwin Rommel's "Ghost Division".

June 1940. In just weeks, General Erwin Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division – dubbed the ‘Ghost Division’ — had driven headlong through Allied forces in Belgium and France to reach the English Channel. Pushing south along the Channel coast past Le Harve, Rommel’s spectacular victory at Saint-Valéry-en-Caux was crowned by the capture of Cherbourg. Following the Franco-German Armistice and a victory parade in Bordeaux, cameras rolled as Rommel re-enacted crossing the Somme for the Nazi propaganda documentary Sieg im Westen (Victory in the West).

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Photography and Sources
• Abbreviations, Conventions and Definitions
• Introduction
• Part I
• Chapter 1: Hitler Strikes West
• Chapter 2: Victory at Saint-Valery-en-Caux
• Chapter 3: ‘Le Havre is Taken’
• Chapter 4: Swastika over Cherbourg
• Chapter 5: Bordeaux Victory Parade
• Part II
• Chapter 6: Re-enacting the Somme Crossing
• Appendix 1: 7th Panzer Division Order of Battle, 10 May 1940
• Appendix 2: 1940 Timeline for the 7th Panzer Division in France
• Bibliography