The 12th SS and Paul Hardcastle

[Crossroads]

I had not read any of his other books so it was not an issue for me :)

I agree that sounds like a bit of an iffy thing to do, especially when selling the new books at full price.

The interesting part I wish he would have spent a bit more time was the question he set up in the beginning: what was it that made the LAH and HJ such a formidable battle units? HJ was a green unit when entering the Normandy campaing, and LAH was in practice almost destroyed a couple of times prior to Normandy, in addition of providing the nucleus of officers and NCOs to HJ.

He could have spent a bit more answering and analysing that question, although he did provide the reasoning to some extent.

As I said, a good book, that with a little more work could have been a great book IMHO.