BLOOD AND STEEL: The Wehrmacht Archive, Normandy 1944

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Ordered by Hitler 'to hold, or to die' and to fight 'to the last grenade and round,' the German army was a formidable opponent during the 1944 Normandy campaign. This book depicts the experience of that army in Normandy through its own records and documentation -- translated original orders, diaries, letters, after action reports, and even jokes, as well as Allied technical evaluations of weapons, vehicles, and equipment and also transcripts of prisoner of war interrogations.

You will also learn from official documents about the Germans' efforts to cope with Allied air and artillery superiority, create new tactical methods for all arms and maintain discipline in the face of overwhelming odds. 16 pages of b/w plates.