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|aD Day through German eyes :|beyewitness accounts of German soldiers of June 6th 1944 /|cOriginal material edited by Holger Eckhertz
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|aPaperback edition containing book one and book two
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|a[United States] :|bDTZ History Publications,|c2016
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|a320 pages ;|c23 cm
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|tBook One.|tIntroduction to Book One --|tUtah Beach: The 'Tobruk' Soldier --|tOmaha Beach: The Resistance Point Gunner --|tGold Beach: The Bunker Lookout --|tJuno Beach: The Goliath Engineer --|tSword Beach: The Battery Officer --|tPostscript to Book One
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|tBook Two.|tIntroduction to Book Two. --|tThe Concrete Panzer --|tThe Luftwaffe Pilot --|tThe Troops in the Observation Point --|tThe Military Police --|tThe Infantry in the Houses --|tThe Airborne Troops --|tThe Stug Crew --|tThe Wonder Weapon --|tPostscript to Book Two
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|aAlmost 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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