Buy this book on-line GRAVES, DONALD E: : BLOOD AND STEEL - The Wehrmacht Archive: Normandy 1944UK.BARNSLEY,S.YORKS.FRONTLINE BOOKS,2013. ISBN 9781848326835.
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The 1944 Normandy campaign in original German documents.Drawn from the little-known records of the Canadian Army Intelligence Corps.A treasure-trove of information for historians,wargamers, re-enactors and modellers.
Ordered by Hitler 'to hold,or to die' and to fight 'to the last grenade and round',the German army was a formidable opponent during the 1944 Normandy campaign.
'Blood and Steel,The Wehrmacht Archive: Normandy 1944' is an informative and colourful collection of translated original orders, diaries,letters,after action reports,and even jokes,as well as Allied technical evaulations of German weapons,vehicles and equipment and transcripts of prisoner of war interrogations. The translations also feature comments from wartime Allied intelligence officers which provide an insight into how the German army was regarded by its opponents at the time.
As you read the landser's letters to wives and families in Germany,his forbidden diaries,his gripes about food,officers,and shortages of just about everything,the daily life of the German soldier in the long and bloody summer of 1944 will come to life.You will also learn from official documents about his superior's efforts to cope with Allied air and artillery superiority,create new tactical methods for all arms and maintain discipline in the face of overwhelming odds with both exaggerated claims of miraculous new 'Vengeance Weapons' and threats of the ultimate sanction for desertion or surrender.
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