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Overview
The Normandy campaign from the German perspective Covers D-Day, Villers-Bocage, Cherbourg, St. Lô, Caen, Avranches, and other battles in hedgerow country Erwin Rommel, Michael Wittmann, and Kurt Meyer appear
Drawing on letters, diaries, firsthand accounts, and official documents, The Germans in Normandy paints a vivid and frequently horrific picture of life for the men who held Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall when the Allies invaded France in June 1944 and who put up a bitter but ultimately hopeless defense throughout that summer. These are the German soldiers who manned the pillboxes on Omaha Beach, fired the machine guns across farmfields, and commanded the Tiger tanks. To read about the war from their point of view is sobering and informative.
Synopsis
Richard Hargreaves recounts the Normandy campaign from the perspective of the German soldiers who manned the Atlantic Wall when the Allies invaded France in June 1944 and then put up a bitter but ultimately hopeless defense throughout that horrific summer. These are the stories of the troops-like Michael Wittmann, Kurt Meyer, and the boy soldiers of the 12th SS Panzer Division-who looked out from pillboxes on Omaha Beach, fired machine guns over hedgerows, commanded panzers, defended the bombed-out ruins of St. Lo and Caen, and suffered through the nightmare of the Falaise Gap.