D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944

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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• Tiger Tracks - The Classic Panzer Memoir
• Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight’s Cross
• If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
• Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck (World War II Library)
• Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
• Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea: The Daring Capture of the U-505
• Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series)
• Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid
• The Forgotten Soldier