Blood and steel: the Wehrmacht archive

Ordered by Hitler æto hold, or to dieÆ and to fight æto the last grenade and roundÆ, 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. - - The Wehrmacht Archive is an informative and colourful collection of translated original orders, diaries, letters, after action reports, and even jokes, as well as Allied technical evaluations of weapons, vehicles and equipment and transcripts of prisoner of war interrogations. - - You will also learn from official documents about the GermansÆ 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.