Tiger Tracks - The Classic Panzer Memoir
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‘The Last Panther' is a ruthless description of the German 9th Army's attempts to escape Russian encirclement against all odds in the last weeks of the war. It is a phenomenal memoir of panzer warfare, the collapse of the Third Reich and the appalling suffering of civilians and troops on all sides, as World War 2 drew to an apocalyptic conclusion in the fields of Germany.
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‘D Day – Through German Eyes’
Personal accounts of June 6th 1944 by Wehrmacht soldiers
who experienced the Normandy beach landings
Most accounts of D Day are told from the Allied perspective, with its emphasis on how the German resistance was overcome on June 6th 1944. But what was it like to be a German soldier in the bunkers, the trenches and gun emplacements of the Normandy coast, facing the onslaught of the mightiest seaborne invasion in history? What motivated the German defenders, and how did they fight 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 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 the onslaught that was facing them, and emerged stunned at the resources and sheer determination of the Allied soldiers. 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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