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D-Day Through German Eyes: How the Wehrmacht Lost France

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The people of Japan believe that everyone has an ikigai - a reason for being; the thing that gets you out of bed each morning. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Along the way, they’ll unlock wisdom for those of us navigating our own coupledoms, and for those still seeking their perfect match.

New and familiar characters abound, voiced by a bright mix of performers, including Kat Dennings, Regé-Jean Page, Emma Corrin, Michael Sheen, Kristen Schaal, Brian Cox, John Lithgow, Jeffrey Wright, and so many more, including fan-favorite narrators Simon Vance and Ray Porter. These soldiers bore the brunt of the fighting and suffered the most in its outcome through death, injury, or capture. Now, book 2 contains a completely different set of astonishing German testimonies from the same archive. However, what is most stunning are the descriptions, the real descriptions, of how horrific war is, what modern weapons do to a human body, what the effect of constant bombardment has on a man's psyche, how exposure to these horrors numbs a person to the horror. Although each story is gruesome and enthralling, the best, set on Sword Beach, is the best because the officer in charge of the battery appears to have the sharpest memories.

I have been studying ww2 for 45 years-there is so much accurate detail that you would have to be a hell of a historian to make this up and then tell it with such a personal touch. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

The men who tell their stories don't try to justify Hitler's regime or anything, but they do explain their own motivations. As you can appreciate, I was under pressure to present our forces in a certain way, with a lot of embellishment. Having read and watched a lot from the allies' POV, it was interesting to hear the information the average German soldier knew about the landing, and how they as an individual and as a larger group reacted when the shells started to fall.

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. There is a lot to take in here and it is very well worth listening to and has certainly given me pause for thought about how things can look very very different depending an the sheer chance of what side you were born on. This book is about the horror of combat, the confusion of war and the bravery of men on both sides The reader can almost hear the explosions, smell the cordite and sweat in the bunkers.

This could be down to heavy editing by the author or his father (the interviewer) but I, and others, are unsure as there’s little information available. Namely, it appears to be a very entertaining and convincing fraud - one that is perhaps still worth reading. Anyone who was absorbed by the Dieter Eckhertz interviews in 'D Day - Through German Eyes' will surely find these new transcripts equally interesting. The result is a series of interviews which reveal not only the desperate reactions of German soldiers to the Allied onslaught, but also the surprising mix of motivations which drove them.Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. It's probably the latter, although well informed in general, apart from the last chapter about a Nazi wonder weapon when the author seems to have been at the brandy. Revealed: Volunteer police officer who told Christian singer that she is 'not allowed' to perform 'church. I've read about D-Day before, and of course have seen some movie versions of it, but it's always from the Allied perspective. Previous histories have focused on the clash of the generals ; the battle between Runstedt and Eisenhower, Montgomery and Rommel, but on the German side in particular this was a battle that would be fought by divisional and regimental commanders; the German D-Day colonels upon whom the real business of trying to defeat the invasion fell it was they and their men; outnumbered and outgunned, who somehow held Normandy for ten whole weeks against the greatest seaborne invasion force ever assembled, and occasionally even came close to defeating it.

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