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D-Day Through German Eyes - How the Wehrmacht Lost France (Paperback)
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D-Day Through German Eyes - How the Wehrmacht Lost France (Paperback)
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Everyone is familiar with the story of D-Day and the triumphal
liberation of France by the Allies: a barbaric enemy was defeated
by Allied ingenuity, courage and overwhelming military force,
helped by dreadful German command errors and the terrible state of
Wehrmacht forces in the West - but is this all true? The Wehrmacht
was hugely experienced, equipped with some of the best weaponry of
the war and was holding its own in Italy and Russia at the time.
Berlin knew the invasion was coming and had had years to prepare
for it. So how did the Germans view the impending invasion and
campaign, did they feel ready, what forces did they have and could
they have done better? Previous histories have focused on the
'clash of the generals'; the battle between von Runstedt and
Eisenhower, Montgomery and Rommel, but on the German side in
particular this was a battle that would be fought by divisional and
regimental commanders; the 'German D-Day colonels' upon whom the
real business of trying to defeat the invasion fell - it was they
and their men, outnumbered and outgunned, who somehow held Normandy
for ten whole weeks against the greatest seaborne invasion force
ever assembled, and occasionally even came close to defeating it.
In the end they lost, and the majority of these unsung leaders
ended up killed, wounded or captured in the fighting. As for their
men, they ranged from elite Waffen-SS stormtroopers through to
bewildered teenagers, old men, 'recycled' invalids and even
anti-communist Eastern legions. Written from the 'other side' and
told through the words of the veterans, this book is a revelation.
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