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D Day Through German Eyes Book 1 & 2 by Holger Eckhertz
D Day Through German Eyes Book 1 & 2 by Holger Eckhertz
Soft Cover
320 pages
Copyright 2016
CONTENTS
Book One 1
Introduction To Book One 3
Utah Beach: The 'Tobruk' Soldier 5
Omaha Beach: The Resistance Point Gunner 41
Gold Beach: The Bunker Lookout 63
Juno Beach: The Goliath Engineer 93
Sword Beach: The Battery Officer 123
Postscript To Book One 143
Book Two 145
Introduction to Book Two147
The Concrete Panzer 149
The Luftwaffe Pilot 169
The Troops in the Observation Point 189
The Military Police 209
The Infantry in the Houses 227
The Airborne Troops 253
The Stug Crew 269
The Wonder Weapon 291
Postscript To Book Two319
ON THE BACK COVER
This new paperback edition contains Book One and Book Two of this series, revealing the hidden side of D Day-which has fascinated readers around the world.
Almost all accounts of D Day are told from the Allied perspective. But what was it like to be a German soldier in the bunkers of the Normandy coast, facing the onslaught of the mightiest invasion in history? What motivated the German defenders, what were their thought processes - and how did they fight from one strong point to another, among the dunes and fields, on that first cataclysmic day?
This book sheds fascinating light on these questions, bringing together statements made by German survivors after the war, when time had allowed them to reflect on their state of mind, their actions and their choices of June 6th.
We see a perspective of D Day which deserves to be added to the historical record, in which ordinary German troops struggled to make sense of what was facing them, and emerged stunned at the weaponry and sheer determination of the Allied troops. Above all, we now have the unheard human voices of the individual German soldiers - the men who are so often portrayed as a faceless mass.
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