Fighting the Invasion: The German Army at D-Day - Softcover

Blumentritt, Günter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848329210 ISBN 13: 9781848329218

Verlag: Frontline Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

In June 1944 Allied troops were massing along the shores of southern England in readiness for the invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Facing them, from the Pas de Calais to Brittany, were German troops, dug in, waiting and preparing for the inevitable confrontation. This compilation of in-depth accounts by German commanders presents D-Day, and the events leading up to it, from the point of view of the officers entrusted with preventing the Allied landings. The accounts David Isby has selected, all written soon after the war's close for American military intelligence, cover preparations for the invasion and chart the development of German strategy as invasion looms. They then turn to the ordeal of D-Day itself including reactions to the first reports of troop landings and a blow-by-blow account of the fighting. Fighting the Invasion paints a superb picture of D-Day from the German perspective, bringing home the entire experience from the initial waiting to the bitter fighting on the beaches and running battles in Norman villages.

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DAVID C. ISBY is a military historian of renown. He has edited Fighting the Breakout, Fighting in Normandy, Fighting the Bombers and The Luftwaffe Fighter Force.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Frontline Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1848329210
• ISBN 13: 9781848329218
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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